No, we can't because talking about any topic with war metaphors seems to be deeply ingrained in human linguistics.

In games like football, we talk about the the quarterback being the "field general" and the offensive tackles and defensive tackles "battling in the trenches".

When husbands & wives argue or fight in divorce cases, we talk about them "drawing their battle lines".

Historians or politicians often talk of "class warfare" or "war on poverty". The "Occupy Wall Street" protest is another borrowing of words from war.

Biologists and doctors talk about "war against disease" and the "war on cancer".

Wikipedia's most controversial articles have "edit wars" which results in pages getting locked.

In computer science, we have the "Byzantine Generals Problem" which is war metaphor.

If you want to jump into every thread <topic X> to plead with people to "stop comparing X to war", you're not going to get anywhere. (E.g. "can we please stop comparing distributed computing fault detection to Byzantium generals and war?")

Even the linguistics field which studied our propensity to always compare topics to "war" also went meta on itself with "linguistic wars": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics_wars