Bob Dylan knew what he was talking about when he wrote 'Masters of War' -- plus his thoughts on Army recruiting!

I noticed the other day with surprise
that Bob Dylan's website lists among books that influenced him Clausewitz's On War. I wonder if there are any other
pop artists influenced by that book? Maybe Eric Burdon or Edwin Starr?

What is weird is
that as I typed this, a Bob Dylan song came on the radio -- "Rainy Day Women,"
which I don't even like. Btw, he isn't just an icon of the ‘60s. There are a
ton of Dylan songs over the last 20 or 30 years that I think are great and
should be better known -- "A Sweetheart Like You" (which I think is about an
assistant to Lucifer talking to a morally lost woman), "Jokerman"
(which I think in part is Dylan talking about himself, and about other false
idols), "Working Man Blues No. 2" (with its refrain about
fighting on the front lines), and another recent song, "Thunder on the
Mountain," which speaks to the issue of military personnel with a neat rhyme:

Gonna raise me an army, some tough sons of bitches

I'll recruit my army from the orphanages

Well, it works the
way he sings it.

PS -- While we are
on the subject of music, you should check out . Good music, no ads. I used to
listen to it while in Baghdad to get my mind off the war. Now that I think of
it, it is kind of ironic -- being in Hell but listening to the music of
Paradise.