Attack

An attack is an "attempt to inflict harm with physical violence, to attempt to inflict harm with words, or to initiate a military offensive against another."

Attack may refer to:

Warfare and combat

• Attack (fencing)
• Charge (warfare)
• Offensive (military)
• Strike (attack)

Books and publishing

• The Attack (novel), a book
• Attack No. 1, comic and animation
• Attack! Books, a publisher
• Attack! (publication), a tabloid publication of the National Alliance from 1969 to 1978
• Der Angriff, a.k.a. The Attack, a newspaper franchise
• In newspaper headlines, to save space, sometimes "criticise"

Films and television

• Attack! The Battle of New Britain, a 1944 American armed forces documentary film
• Attack (1956 film), also known as Attack!, a 1956 American war film
• Attack (2016 film), a 2016 Telugu film
• Attack (2022 film), a 2022 Hindi film
• The Attack (1966 film), an Australian television play
• The Attack (2012 film), a 2012 film directed by Ziad Doueiri
• "The Attack" (Australian Playhouse)
• "The Attack", a season 7 episode of Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu

Music

• Attack Records, a record label
• Attack (music), the prefix or initial phase of a sound
• Attacca, the immediate joining of a musical movement to a previous one

Bands

• Attack (band), a 1980s band
• The Attack (band), a 1960s band
• Attack Attack!, a metalcore band

Albums

• Attack!! (2002), an album by Yngwie J. Malmsteen
• The Attack (2007), an album by Jah Jah
• Attack Attack! (album), 2010
• Attack (AAA album), 2006
• Attack (Disciple album), 2014

Songs

• "Attack!", by The Toys
• "Attack" (Thirty Seconds to Mars song), 2005
• "Attack", a song from the System of a Down album Hypnotize, 2005
• "Attack", a song from the Joe Satriani album Engines of Creation, 2000

Ships

• HMAS Attack (P 90), the lead ship of the Attack class patrol boats of the Royal Australian Navy
• HMS Attack, three ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy
• Attack-class submarine, planned Royal Navy submarines, cancelled in 2012

Sports

• An alternative name for the offense
• The bowling attack in cricket

Other

• Attack! (board game), 2003
• The Attack (video game), a 1981 game for the TI-99/4A computer
• Attack (political party), a political party in Bulgaria
• The Attack (painting), a 1899 painting by the Finnish artist Edvar Isto

See also

• Atack, a surname
• ATTAC or Association pour la taxation des transactions financières et pour l'action citoyenne, activist organization