Analysis Of Bob Dylan 's ' Masters Of War '

The song has a lot of lyrics to it but there are three words that are used a bunch throughout the song. The phrase “bring them home” is used 42 times throughout the song. Seeger was trying to make his point clear that the American troops should be brought home not shipped over to Vietnam. When the song says bring them home it also could be talking about reuniting the boys and men with their friends and families. There is a line from the songs that says, “If an army invades this land of mine… You’d find me out on the firing line” (Vietnam War). When he is saying that he is just stating that if some foreign threat invades our country he would support the military, and be right out there with them defending this country. During one of the song lines he says that he isn’t a “pacifist” which means he is not against war. He just doesn’t believe in what the United States is doing in Vietnam. The Vietnam Article says, “This song is definitely against the Truman Doctrine. The Truman Doctrine states that we should supply military aid to struggling countries” (Vietnam War). Seeger probably didn’t have a problem with the doctrine in itself he had a problem with where the aid and the help was going. Especially to a fight that the United States was losing. Pete wasn’t the only person to write a popular protest song. There were more protest songs than just “Bring them home” such as Phil

In 1984, the British synth-pop act, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, produced an elongated version of "War" on their album "Welcome to the Pleasuredome”.[25] Frankie Goes to Hollywood contemporized the song by using the background of the Cold War. Later in 1985 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band revitalized “War” for their world tour. Their version of “War” condemned American intervention in El Salvador and Nicaragua during the 1980s.[26] Springsteen transformed the song to widescreen with his “War” music video which showed the separation of families and footage of Vietnam. [27] Over the years, “War” conveyed the ongoing struggle peace through the perspectives of various artists.

Every war will have those who support the war and those who are against the war. In 1965, those who were against the Vietnam War made their views known by many forms of protesting such as forming organizations, rallying, and anti-war protest music. Anti-war protest music was an opportunity to put people’s perspectives into song to hopefully spread their message. Buffy Sainte-Marie wrote the song “Universal Soldier” in 1962 and her message was that “Universal Soldier is about individual responsibility for war and how the old feudal thinking kills us all” (Boulanger). The song “Universal Soldier” was used as a protest anthem during the Vietnam War and attempts to untangle one of the paradoxes of life that war never leads to peace through

The Vietnam War sparked a lot of political controversy in the United States and tensions were high anytime the war was talked about. However, some were determined to re-establish nationalism through music like artist Lee Greenwood in "God Bless the USA." We as Americans take living in this country for granted, and this song aimed to put that into perspective. If you were to lose everything you worked for in your life, you should still be thankful that you live in the United States because they can't take away our freedom. Nearly a decade later, Waylan Jennings released "The Eagle," to remind listeners just how powerful our country is. The eagle serves as a metaphor for our country and that you should rest easy at night knowing that the eagle's "claws are sharper than ever...[and] ready for a fight." You should always remember that you are a part of this country and you will be protected, and not to lose sight in the power of our country. After the attacks on the World

The latter half of the twentieth century involved increasing tensions between the United States of America and the Soviet Union due to conflicting political and economic ideals. Specifically, the United States promoted the political philosophy of democracy and the economic policy of capitalism. On the other hand, the Soviet Union practiced communism and vehemently encouraged it upon other nations, oftentimes with force. As a result, the United States began arresting the expansion of communism in accordance with its foreign policy of containment. Despite this, communism soon manifested in Vietnam, but the United States subsequently unleashed the entirety of its resources to prevent this rival philosophy from taking solidified root which resulted in a full-scale war to the dismay of

Starting in the 1949 with the explosion of an atomic bomb(RDS-1) in Russia and ending with the dissolvement of the Soviet Union, the nuclear arms race was an extremely tense few decades that forever changed the United States in many ways. The Arms Race is exactly what it sounds like; a race to amass more advance weapons. During these four decades, the Nuclear Arms Race affected Americans socially through instilling a variety of emotions ranging from fear, to awe of the power of the nuclear weapons, economically through enlarging governmental role within the economy and mostly importantly, the political impacts were more involvement required by the U.S government in world affairs and as a force against Russia.

Aristotle once said “we make war that we may live in peace.” That is true. All wars have been fought because people feel that peace has been lost, and they want to obtain it. Whether it be about land, rights, religion, or government; people fight for peace. Edwin Starr’s song lyrics are wrong, because war can be beneficial. The benefits to war are that it frees people from oppression and gives the country and soldiers a unifying ideology and a sense of national pride.

The Vietnam War was a war of the people and culture. Many people call it a living room war. The American people would actually be able to see what was going on on the the other side of the world and have a voice. One way to express opinions was through music. Music was release in the 1960s and 1970s, pro-war and anti-war, that influenced Americans opinions and showcased beliefs that would not be heard without the power of music.

In Order to combat this rapid spread of Communism the US increase the equipment and the military advisors that these Asian countries, Vietnam in particular. But with eh assassination of Kennedy in 1963, Johnson was left with 16,000 US troops over in South Vietnam. Around six months after Johnson steps up into office there happened to be an attack on U.S. naval ships in the Gulf of Tonkin. In Ordered to resolve the fighting growing concern over the US troops and the people of South Vietnam congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, with giving the President to declare war against North Vietnam. By February 1965, President Johnson began “the air war” which ordered sustained bombing of the north. However the North was very good at defined these kind of attacks, with their guerrilla fighting tactics. ABout a month late the first major anti-war demonstration was held in Ann Arbor Michigan. Over the next five year, the nation was becoming deeply divided by the war, and the protest was only growing larger and more hectic. It was during that time on an October day in 1968 that the largest demonstration took place attracting over two million. This brought the US its knees with all this power and light they were going to have to start withdrawing troops from Vietnam. This is not the only front that America was fighting communism on, starting after world war two there was an arms race between the major countries, this included Russia and the US. With the US and Russia having many different political structures Washington looked at the USSR as a threat to the American people. Tensions did have their highs and lows throughout the sixties, examples being Cuba or the race to space it had always seemed that the opposing side had a trick up their sleeve. The takeover of Cuba had led many American in to fear as it was the first time that Russia had the capability to reach the US with

John McCrae's idea of war is that it's like a game or sport .He writes about “The torch , be yours to hold high” in line 12 .This image is like in the Olympics, where people are carrying the torch in celebration.He feels that by recruiting more people to war and telling them that it's an honor to die for their country, then there will be a bigger chance for victory. when really it's hell and something that can't be forgotten no matter how hard the person tries .

During the 1960’s was when the Anti-War movements were most common. There were over hundred of organizations all fighting for the same thing; Peace. People would write speeches, people would strike, many people would listen to Anti-War music. Many artist in the 1960’s would release songs stating their opinions about the Vietnam war, and most of the artist would be against war and promote peace and

War is something that everybody has been affected by at some point in their lives. Whether it be a family member that was in a war, a close friend, maybe even that one weird guy you ended up being good friends with. War will always be around us in some way, shape, or form. And, that fact is shown in Stop The Sun by Gary Paulsen. In Stop The Sun, Terry’s dad served in the Vietnam war, where he had to face the conflict of himself versus Viet Cong(VC). This kind of conflict is can be found in this story when Terry had asked his dad about the Vietnam war. “... and then we caught it. We began taking fire from three sides, automatic weapons, and everybody went down and tried to get low, but we couldn’t. We couldn’t get low enough. We could never

War, a brutal, barbaric and animalistic concept that contradicts the essence of being human. War by Edwin Starr, and Happy Christmas by John Lennon are songs promoting the anti-war movement. Released in 1970 and 1972, whilst the war of Vietnam continues, both of these song depicts tone and mood through the themes love, peace and unity. Both artists has incorporated literary devices within the lyrics to convey the message and resonate it towards the audience.

Throughout history, war has been the most common resort for nations to solve problems or show off their strength. However it wasn’t until recently where mankind had just live and experience a war that not only did it have the potential destroy nations, but also had the potential to destroy the whole world and humanity itself. This was known as the Cold War where after WWII, citizens of the world witnessed the potential of the atomic bomb and feared the possibility of nuclear fallout or total annihilation of the Earth. The only two superpowers remaining at the time were the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. These two nation competed against each other in a nuclear arms race. They fought to spread the ideals of either a free democratic, capitalistic society or a controlled socialist, communist society. After a 45 year struggle from 1945-1991, the Cold War came to an end due to the fall of the Soviet Union. It was inevitable due to the fact during the last few years of the war, the USSR face internal domestic problems such as their financial/economic situation, failed political reforms, and revolution throughout the Union itself. The causes to the collapse of the Union not only affected them but affected the world to present day.

The previously accepted nature of war stemmed from the Clausewitzian trinity: war is emotional, an experience wrought with passion, violence, and enmity; uncertainty, chance, and friction pervade the medium of war; however, because war is not an end in itself, and because, as a means, it is subordinate to its political aims, war must be subject to reason (Clausewitz, 89). With the first employment of nuclear weapons, however, strategists and military theorists began to question Clausewitz’s foundational ideas (Winkler, 58). Similarly, Allan Winkler, in agreeing with Bernard Brodie’s thesis, opines that the advent of nuclear weapons fundamentally changed the nature of war. Winkler’s assertion stems from his argument that such a nuclear duel would yield a post-war environment incapable of recovery for any parties involved (62). He further describes Brodie’s realization that “[t]he atomic bomb is not just another and more destructive weapon to be added to an already long list. It is something which threatens to make the rest of the list relatively unimportant.” (62) Ultimately, Winkler abridges Brodie’s assessment in stating that “the United States was caught in the paradox of having to prepare for a war it did not plan to fight.” (63)