History Main / Warhawk

** Obara and Tyene Sand both want war with the Lannisters after [[spoiler:their father dies in a duel with Ser Gregor Clegane]]. Their proposed wars differ significantly though: Obara wants to invade the Reach and burn Oldtown as a start, while Tyene prefers starting a defensive war by crowning Myrcella Baratheon queen and forcing the Lannister's to try invading Dorne. They stir up discontent among the commonfolk and nobility to try to force their uncle Prince Doran to go along with one of their plans.

* ''VideoGame/EVEOnline'' has a voter bloc in the [[TheFederation Gallente Federation]] aptly called the Hawks who advocate this. They are the largest bloc among the Gallente population and support the Federation in its expansion and military development.

* In military science fiction ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'', protagonist John Rumford at first argues against war with Azania, a militarist LadyLand, when he becomes chief of the Confederation's general staff. However, his head of state, [[KnightTemplar Governor Kraft]], sees the situation in terms of "Us or Them" and pushes full ahead for armed confrontation before the balance of power grows even more unfavorable. Eventually, he wins Rumford over to his point of view.

* ''{{Naruto}}'' has Danzo Shimura, a man who, despite his insistence that all of his actions were for "the good of Konoha", has done some very shady things to undermine the authority of those he believed were unfit to be in power, including: Colluding with village enemies and enemy nations; passing on false information in order to sabotage attempts at peace agreements between Konoha and other villages; and (at least in the anime) outright stating that the Third Hokage's philosophy of understanding, and forgiveness (which was readily adopted by his successor, Minato Namikaze) would serve to be the destruction of the village.

* In the ''TabletopGames/BattleTech'' universe, the Clans are divided into Crusaders and Wardens, both interpret the vision of their forefather Alexandr Kerensky and his son Nicolas differently. The Crusaders wish to cut a swath through the Inner Sphere to conquer Terra and establish a new Star League, thereby uniting humanity and subduing all others, while the Wardens want to stay out of the Inner Sphere and watch over it as protectors, defending them from other, unspecified entities should the need arise. Inside clan society, ALL Clanners could be considered war hawks (they even have a mech that goes by that name!), owing to their cultural norms of solving every conflict by force if one of wishes so. In the larger scale of things, the Crusaders are the ones seeing war with the "barbaric" Spheroids as the only options to attain their goal.

* General Decker from ''Film/MarsAttacks'' sees the Martian armada, and immediately calls for all-out warfare. Unfortunately, the President listens to the foppish Professor Kessler, who calls for dialog and mediation. It doesn't end well for the pacifists.

* [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority Imperator]] Essachan Sherruk from ''Literature/{{Eclipse}}'' is vehement in his avocation for ''international military intervention'' against [[AntiMagic Skuurnur]] after one of their commanders invaded a neutral country. When a refugee fleet of that same country gets attacked, Sherruk again calls for war ''just on the mere suspicion'' that it ''might'' have been Skuurnur, to hell with any investigation in the matter. The twist is that he flat-out said that he's only really concerned Skuurnur might curry favor with some defense contractors that he's interested in courting for his own empire.

There is also a related term in US politics, "chickenhawk", levied at people who advocate war but are or have previously been unwilling to serve in combat themselves.

* Jiang Wei of Shu in the ''Franchise/DynastyWarriors'' series is constantly pushing for war against Wei. This ends up bringing about the end of Shu since Wei is stronger and Jiang Wei suffers major defeats.

NotToBeConfusedWith the video game ''VideoGame/{{Warhawk}}'', or a hawk or another NobleBirdOfPrey that is [[AttackAnimal used in combat]].

The term War Hawk was coined by Virginia Congressman John Randolph in the early 19th century, in reference to American politicians like UsefulNotes/HenryClay who were advocating war against Great Britain due to allegations of impressment of American sailors by the Royal Navy and claims that Native American attacks on United States territory were being encouraged by British officials in Canada. However, many of the War Hawks came from inland territories who neighbored Canada and had their eyes on expanding Americas borders northward. The War Hawks efforts led to the UsefulNotes/WarOf1812.

* [[{{Literature/RedStormRising}} Red Storm Rising]] has the USSR facing a national fuel shortage after a terrorist attack destroys their biggest refinery. Instead of simply ''buying'' oil from the West, on the admittedly not unreasonable grounds that the West would be in a position to bleed them dry if they let on how bad the situation was, they came up with ASimplePlan: Drop Germany in the ordure with the rest of NATO with a FalseFlagOperation, use the ensuing political chaos to hammer the various European powers flat and then seize the Middle East while they're too punch-drunk to do anything about it. [[spoiler: They ''nearly'' get away with it, even though the FalseFlagOperation is a bust.]]

* BabylonFive had several:

The term War Hawk was coined by Virginia Congressman John Randolph in the early 19th century, in reference to American politicians like UsefulNotes/HenryClay who were advocating war against Great Britain due to allegations of impressment of American sailors by the Royal Navy and claims that Native American attacks on United States territory were being encouraged by British officials in Canada. However, many of the War Hawks came from inland territories who neighbored Canada and had their eyes on expanding Americas borders northward. The War Hawks efforts led to the Main/WarOf1812.

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': Darth Baras and his master Darth Vengean were both dissatisfied with the Treaty of Coruscant which lead to the ColdWar between the Republic and Empire, wishing to restart the conflict and finish what they started. To that end they enacted Plan Zero, an effort to destabalize the peace and resume active warfare. Ironically, Baras himself was the original author of the Treaty of Coruscant.

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': Darth Baras and his master Darth Vengean were both dissatisfied with the Treaty of Coruscant which lead to the ColdWar between the Republic and Empire, wishing to restart the conflict and finish what they started. To that end they enacted Plan Zero, an effort to destabalize the peace and resume active warfare.

** Londo Molari wanted the Centuri to be "great again" and to punish the Narn, leading to his alliance with the Shadows.
** G'kar was a WarHawk until the Centuri occupation and events caused him to become more spiritual.

* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': In the episode "Act of Terror", we have Percival Bertram a wealthy businessman (looking like a CorruptHick) who supports right-wing conservative politicians and brands himself as a super-patriot (i.e. a {{Warhawk}}) advocating that the U.S. (pre 9/11) should take gloves of with respect to terrorists to U.S. interests in the Middle East. However, the alleged super-patriot finances terrorism in the Middle East against U.S. interests (supposedly to create a self-fulfilling prophecy gaining his own business interests.)

** The Klingons [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy have this as their hat]], as Worf points out, the Empire feels it's gone soft. Gowron launched the invasion of Cardassia because they might be under control of changelings on the advice of his chief WarHawk General Martok [[spoiler:who's really a changeling, {{irony}} at it's finest]].