The title comes from the novel "War and Peace" by the Russian author Lev Tolstoy, published in 1869 and is considered one of the most celebrated works of fiction.
Coyote sports white socks and polka dot boxers at one point. Most WB character cartoons had a scene or two of the main character in their undies at the time.
The was the last cartoon directed entirely by Chuck Jones before he was fired from the studio in December 1962 and later moved to MGM to create the Tom and Jerry shorts after the original Warner Bros. Cartoons shut down in 1963.
This short was completed in 1962, but didn't release until 1964 after Chuck Jones and his team were fired from following Warner Bros. shut down its animation studio in 1963 and he later moved to MGM to work with Tom and Jerry before the short released. Also, this was the last short that Jones had been worked on until Chariots of Fur (1994), the first short of the modern Looney Tunes franchise, released in 1994.