High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! War is the third studio album by Irish rock band U2, released on 28 February 1983. The album has come to be regarded as U2`s first overtly political album, in part because of songs like "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "New Year`s Day", as well as the title, which stems from the band`s perception of the world at the time; Bono stated that "war seemed to be the motif for 1982."