11 Mar '11 20:27>2 edits
This may belong in Culture, but I think it belongs here.
I think it adds a great deal of insight to listen to the nature of the music associated with different wars. Specifically, I'm studying the defining songs of two wars that are often compared.
Vietnam
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
YouTube
Images of Vietnam video
War on Terror
Bodies by Drowning Pool
YouTube
"BAD" WORDS IN VIDEO OF FALLUJAH
The music is completely different. One is a song for war weary conscripts, the other for enthusiastic, confident professionals.
Was it simply the lack of conscription that changed military culture in this way? Is it the age old danger of the standing army that the American Founders feared so much, but aimed outside instead of inside? The Military Industrial Complex, etc.
What does your nation (whatever it is) realistically NEED militarily?
I think it adds a great deal of insight to listen to the nature of the music associated with different wars. Specifically, I'm studying the defining songs of two wars that are often compared.
Vietnam
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
YouTube
Images of Vietnam video
War on Terror
Bodies by Drowning Pool
YouTube
"BAD" WORDS IN VIDEO OF FALLUJAH
The music is completely different. One is a song for war weary conscripts, the other for enthusiastic, confident professionals.
Was it simply the lack of conscription that changed military culture in this way? Is it the age old danger of the standing army that the American Founders feared so much, but aimed outside instead of inside? The Military Industrial Complex, etc.
What does your nation (whatever it is) realistically NEED militarily?