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 ...

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 On Drugs released their fifth album, I Don’t Live Here Anymore. It arrives as the band appears to be at the height of their career — they’re now a Grammy-winning, chart-topping act ...

Until last week, the approved new war song for German soldiers in World War II was the German Navy’s song of World War I. We’re Sailing Against England, music by Composer Herms Niel, words by the late ...

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 ...

War, as it turns out, is good for absolutely nothing when it comes to anti-war songs. At the risk of sounding like Bill O’Reilly (who, no doubt, listens only to Wagner), it’s time to protest the ...