A turf war is a colloquial term for a contention between two or more parties resulting in confrontation.
It is a common problem in larger organisations when two divisions fight for access to resources or capital or over control of operations. They can break out due to improper management further up the bureaucratic hierarchy.
The President's policy review was not specific about how he would turn many of the goals into practical realities, and he said nothing about resolving the running turf wars among the Pentagon, the National Security Agency, the Homeland Security Department and other agencies over the conduct of defensive and offensive cyberoperations.[1]
Turf wars are also fought between street gangs for control of a particular area, especially to sell drugs.
The term probably originated in horseracing ("the turf" being a colloquial expression for racing), referring to a conflict between racing organisations; its first recorded use in this context was in the New York Times in 1897.[2]
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