"Go to War" is a song by American rock band Nothing More. It was released on June 23, 2017 as the first single off of the band's fifth album The Stories We Tell Ourselves. The song performed well commercially and critically, topping the Billboard US Mainstream Rock Songs chart and receiving two Grammy Award nominations Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance, for the 2018 Grammys.

Contrary to the band normal process for song writing, where song ideas are written and tweaked for months until they are finalized, "Go to War" was written in a span of around 30 minutes, with lyrics improvised on the spot. Hawkins, the band's primary writer, explained:

"I was going through the end of an eight-year relationship. I was dealing with some stuff, and I got off the phone, and I was angrier than I've ever been. I was never one to yell a lot or get into super-big, dramatic fights or anything like that; I'm pretty laid back. But I'd gotten to that point, was on the edge, and we had it out with each other over the phone, and I was just fuming. At the end of eight-years of stuff that had kind of built up – I looked at [guitarist] Mark [Vollunga], and I was like, 'Let’s get in the studio now! Play that guitar part you were playing yesterday.' And so Mark started to play it, and I just started singing stuff, and it was about 30 minutes later that the bulk of that song was done. So, some of them came out quick like that and were unusual for us.

The song was released as the first single off fromThe Stories We Tell Ourselves first released on June 23, 2017, alongside promotional single "Don't Stop" and lyric videos for both tracks. A full-fledged music video was recorded on June 1, at the Lacy St. Production Center in Los Angeles, and later released on June 26. The music video takes place in bar, and consists of alternating footage of the band performing, and bar verbally and physically fighting one another. In July, the song was also played for television commercials for the film War for the Planet of the Apes. The song was additionally used in a trailer for the video game Paladins. An alternate, acoustic recording song was released for streaming on the internet as well.

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