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* ''[[Gundam]]'' is something of a meta example. There are 11 TV series in it already and every one is built entirely around a war in different settings and characters. You'd think that the entire Gundam metaverse is in the state of perpetual war (especially true for the Universal Century). To go even further, the series almost always (with a couple notable exceptions such as [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]) compounds the reality that no matter how many times the heroes win the war, another will come eventually as if war is tied to humanity's existence.

* The war between Earth and "Jovian Lizards" in ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'', which gets incredibly stupid and pointless once we learn why and how it started.

* The Northwest Frontier was famous as that during the days of [[The Raj]]. This was the border between British India and Afghanistan. Basically what would happen is the [[Proud Warrior Race|Pushtan]] tribes would go into the valleys looking for plunder and slaves. The British naturally would march up into the hills to [[Make an Example of Them]]. Once in a while the Pushtans would get really riled up and try to wage a full-out war. Interestingly, this was a favorite assignment request among British as there were chances to get distinction in combat with appropriate promotions, which makes one wonder if they were [[Not So Different]] from the Pushtans.

**In fact this happened whomever controlled the lowlands with few alterations in description, from before Christ, to the present Pakistani government. One sort-of break from it was in the [[Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan]] where the Northwest Frontier became a giant [[Arms Fair]] where [[Enemy Mine|everyone who had a beef with the Russians]]-or [[War for Fun and Profit|just wanted a quick buck]] dumped in weapons to be used by the Afghans.

** The [[Vietnam War]], part of the [[Cold War]], lasted from 1955 to 1975 and was itself the continuation the war the French fought back when the area was called French Indochina... which was in turn a continuation of the war against the Japanese when they occupied French Indochina, which was in turn a continuation of the various conflicts in Indochina between the French and those seeking to evict them since the Annamese war... It goes on.

* [[The War on Terror]] has no clear end and could potentially go on for decades.