(a.) Inclined to war or contention\; warlike; pugnacious.

aggressive antagonistic assertive battling belligerent bickering bloodthirsty bloody bloody-minded chauvinist chauvinistic combative contentious disputatious divisive enemy eristic factional factious ferocious fierce fighting full of fight hawkish hostile inimical irascible irritable jingo jingoish jingoist jingoistic litigious martial militant militaristic military offensive partisan polarizing polemic pugnacious quarrelsome rebellious saber-rattling sanguinary sanguineous savage scrappy shrewish soldierlike soldierly trigger-happy truculent unfriendly unpacific unpeaceable unpeaceful warlike warmongering warring wrangling