War on terror
Etymology
The phrase war on terror was used to specifically refer to the military campaign led by the United States, United Kingdom, and allied countries against organizations and regimes identified by them as a terrorist, and usually excludes other independent counter-terrorist operations and campaigns such as those by Russia and India.
The conflict has also been referred to by names other than the War on Terror. It has also been known as:
- World War IV[53] (assuming the Cold War was World War III)
- World War III[54]
- Bush's War on Terror[55]
- The Long War[56][57]
- The Forever War[58]
- The Global War on Terror[59]
- The War Against al-Qaeda[60]
- The War of Terror[61] (From the perspective of individuals who experience the conflicts brought on by continual foreign and domestic intervention as the source of terror; also from Sacha Baron Cohen's deliberately mispronouncing "War on Terror" in the 2006 satire film Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.)