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War is the third album by American band War, and their first following the departure of singer Eric Burdon and the group's name change from the original Eric Burdon and War. It was released in March 1971 on United Artists Records, their first for the label. The album did not gain much attention upon release, but sales and critical acclaim picked up after their subsequent hit albums throughout the 1970s, the next appearing later in 1971. One single was taken from the album: "Lonely Feelin'" backed with "Sun Oh Son", which did not chart. Of the other songs, "War Drums" includes a chant of the band's name and appears to be an attempt at a group theme song; and "Fidel's Fantasy" generated some controversy over its spoken word monologue criticizing Fidel Castro. Cover art The cover painting depicts many disembodied arms giving a three finger salute, a concept also used on the group's first album with Eric Burdon: Eric Burdon Declares "War". There are actually eight arms in the picture, but only seven people in the group, revealing that the artwork was commissioned when Burdon was still with them, confirmed by the cover notes which credit him for the concept. The cover art is by Norman Seeff. The back cover shows the same picture, mirror reversed. The original edition was printed on a linen textured cover slick, and has an inner gatefold photo of the band. Track listing All tracks composed by War (Papa Dee Allen, Harold Brown, B.B. Dickerson, Lonnie Jordan, Charles Miller, Lee Oskar, Howard E. Scott). The album notes also mention that Hilton Valentine (of The Animals) helped with the lyrics to "Back Home".

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“It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.”
— Charles Francis Adams Sr., Despatch to Earl Russell at a period of diplomatic tension between the US and Britain during the American Civil War (September 5, 1863); Correspondence concerning Claims against Great Britain, vol. 2 (Washington, D.C., 1870), p. 365
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower, 16 April 1953, Speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors
“[t]he laws of war are only as strong as those who insist that they be observed."”
— Peter Karsten, Law, Soldier, And Combat, supra note 55, p. 70; as quoted in as quoted in Kelly Dawn Askin (1997). War Crimes Against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. ISBN 978-90-411-0486-1., p.36.
“I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.”
— Richard Nixon, on-the-record interview with C. L. Sulzberger (March 8, 1971), in The New York Times (March 10, 1971), p. 14.
“A people who will persevere in war beyond a certain limit ought to know the consequences. Many, many peoples with less pertinacity have been wiped out of national existence.”
— General William Tecumseh Sherman, letter to Major R.M. Sawyer (31 January 1864), from Vicksburg.
“The problem with gun runners going to war, is that there is no shortage of ammunition.”
— Simeon Weisz, Lord of War.

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“It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.”
— Charles Francis Adams Sr., Despatch to Earl Russell at a period of diplomatic tension between the US and Britain during the American Civil War (September 5, 1863); Correspondence concerning Claims against Great Britain, vol. 2 (Washington, D.C., 1870), p. 365
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower, 16 April 1953, Speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors
“[t]he laws of war are only as strong as those who insist that they be observed."”
— Peter Karsten, Law, Soldier, And Combat, supra note 55, p. 70; as quoted in as quoted in Kelly Dawn Askin (1997). War Crimes Against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. ISBN 978-90-411-0486-1., p.36.
“I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.”
— Richard Nixon, on-the-record interview with C. L. Sulzberger (March 8, 1971), in The New York Times (March 10, 1971), p. 14.
“A people who will persevere in war beyond a certain limit ought to know the consequences. Many, many peoples with less pertinacity have been wiped out of national existence.”
— General William Tecumseh Sherman, letter to Major R.M. Sawyer (31 January 1864), from Vicksburg.
“The problem with gun runners going to war, is that there is no shortage of ammunition.”
— Simeon Weisz, Lord of War.

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