Enola Gay is not only one of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's most memorable tracks, it is one of the most poignant, ...

Editor's note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. In commemoration, Military Times is highlighting stories about the Vietnam War. War, ...

Last week the war song bottleneck appeared to be broken. Three were going great guns: > Lyricist Frank Loesser’s Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition! (inspired by a Navy Chaplain’s historic remark ...

Nena is one of the greatest one-hit wonders of the Cold War era, and “99 Luftballons” is a long-standing fan favorite among pop songs of that era. Honestly, this band deserved so much more than they ...

Not every great protest song is in your face or direct about its message. Some songwriters take a more poetic approach to singing anti-war songs. Let’s take a look at four tracks that are very much ...

From Civil War sheet music to Vietnam radio and Iraq-era digital media, the entertainment that became morale equipment. War has always had a soundtrack. It has also had a bedside table. In every major ...

War, like love, has long inspired artists and musicians. That is especially true of the songs written in response to the Vietnam War during the countercultural movements of the 1960s and ’70s. The ...