Music has long been a powerful mirror of cultural trends. During America’s controversial involvement in the Vietnam War, popular music became a key arena for expressing both support and opposition. Pro-war songs often highlighted patriotism, duty, and solidarity with soldiers, reinforcing traditional ideals. Meanwhile, anti-war artists used their music to question government decisions, mourn the human cost, and rally a growing peace movement. Together, these contrasting voices revealed a nation divided, showing how American popular music not only reflected history but actively shaped public conversation during a turbulent era.

To help us dive safely into this melodic menage of cultural history we have brought on Dr Justin A. Brummer . Justin is the founding editor of the Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) since 2007, based in Austin, TX, a unique cultural-historical archive, cataloguing, analysing, and digitising 6000+ songs that reference the Vietnam War, as well as the acquisition of original vinyl records and other physical sources. He is co-author of the discography Vietnam on Record at the University of Maryland, and has featured in prominent news and history outlets, including the BBC, PBS, NPR, Shindig!, Military.com, the Journal of TX Music History, and History Today.

The archive for the Vietnam War Song Project is hosted on RYM. Songs are posted on the YouTube channel of the same name. Project updates are on Bluesky and Instagram.

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The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was undeniably a controversial global war, despite the formation of a ‘Coalition of the Willing.’ Leading this coalition was certainly the United States, but ardently supporting them was Great Britain. The war itself caused immense destabilization in Iraq and had profound ramifications for middle east stability. Yet, when the 20th anniversary of the war arrived, British media wrote about it in such a way as to eschew all responsibility for their coverage of the war and pin the unpopularity on the government and political/military decision making at the time. To explore how the British media wrote about the Iraq war at the time of the conflicts 20th anniversary is to explore a media legacy that was largely uncritical of its own role in covering the conflict. Catriona Pennell is our guest today and she is going to unpack this complex issue and dive into the media’s role when it comes to modern conflict and help us understand how the media chooses to remember, or not remember, aspects of their own culpability when a nation goes to war.

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The Apache are a collection of Southern-Athabaskan speaking Indigenous peoples who historically inhabited what is now the American southwest and Mexico. They are popularly known for their historical resistance to US expansion as well as their constant state of conflict with the state of Mexico. Some historians even claim that the Apache are the first insurgents ever encountered by the American army. Their tactics and approach to war speaks of a people that equate warfare with total societal war, meaning everyone in the community plays a role and their spirituality, their economy, politics and social interactions all contribute to the Apache way of war.

To help us dive into this subject our guest today is Robert Watt. Robert is a military historian with research interests in the North American Indian Wars 1750-1886 with a primary focus on the Apache Wars of 1860-1886 and, in particular, the study of the Victorio Campaign of 1877-1881. He has written a trilogy of books on the Victorio Campaign of 1877-1881 (2017-2019), several academic articles on the Apache and the US Army, and two Osprey books on Apache Tactics and ‘Apache Warrior’. His article on Victorio’s Tres Castillos campaign was awarded a Moncado Prize by the Society of Military History in 2017.

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