"Out of its nearly 250-year history, the U.S. has spent a vast majority of time at war or involved in significant military conflicts, with some analyses suggesting the U.S. has been in a state of conflict for over 90% of its existence, totaling around 225-230 years, factoring in major wars, American-Indian conflicts, and post-9/11 engagements. While only a few wars were formally declared (Revolutionary, 1812, Mexican-American, WWI, WWII), the continuous military presence and numerous interventions mean it's rarely been truly at peace.
Key Figures & Context
High Percentage: Some sources cite figures like 227 of 244 years (93%) or 228 of the last 245 years (since 1776) as being in conflict.
Broad Definition of "War": These high numbers often include:
Declared Wars: Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican-American War, Spanish-American War, World Wars I & II.

Ongoing Conflicts: The long American-Indian Wars (1783-1924) are sometimes counted as one continuous struggle, adding decades.
Post-9/11 Era: The "War on Terror," including operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, has kept the U.S. engaged in continuous, if sometimes low-intensity, warfare. 
Why So Many Years?

Interventions & Minor Conflicts: Beyond major wars, the U.S. has engaged in numerous interventions and smaller-scale conflicts, from the Barbary Wars to Panama.

Continuous Engagement: After 9/11, the U.S. entered a period where generations of Americans have never known a time without active U.S. military involvement somewhere in the world. 

In essence, while formal declarations are few, the U.S. has been almost constantly involved in military action, making the periods of true peace very brief".

Lyrics:
And the war machine marches on
Forever wars, forever wars
An entire history of conflict
And the war machine marches on 

And the war machine marches on
The thirst for power is never ending 
Drones are buzzing bombs are dropping 
And the war machine marches on

And the war machine marches on
Humans are the collateral 
For just getting in the way 
As the war machine marches on

And the war machine marches on
The government says it's for our protection 
Just a master of disguise 
And the war machine marches on

And the war machine marches on
Power, resources and domination 
Control and influence the goal
And the war machine marches on

And the war machine marches on
It never ends, it never ends
Desperation everywhere 
And the war machine marches on 
And the war machine marches on 
And the war machine marches on 

This is the end
This is the end 
This is the end

Music and Lyrics by Len Bennati FM Folk 2026
Mastered Track: Distrokid Mixea
Image: Damien Knight

War Machine

Just did a painting and updated the art on most of my tracks. 

Hope you like them

Just messing around learning, experimenting, playing and expressing myself. My little collection of demos, songs, experiments and instrumentals. I hope you enjoy them. I'm a guitarist / Vocalist / Producer and enjoy learning to express my moods, emotions, dreams and thoughts as I go.

Thank you all for the likes comments and reposts.

I have added a support link as I am struggling to keep up my subscriptions here currently and it would help me keep on creating and posting more songs. Thank you if you read this far lol.

En konstellation av olika band från Psykonauterna till Krom Gbg.

“What makes a song is the singer, while what makes a singer is their dedication to music and their inner feelings.”   Dimash Qudaibergen

I have enjoyed music for as long as I can remember and cannot remember a day of not either singing or listening to music. I am self-taught when it comes to playing guitar but what I most enjoy is singing which I have been doing since around age 18. Now retired singing and playing the guitar is now just a hobby and something I do to help pass the time. Have always  loved the sound of a Martin guitar. Currently been playing a Road Series DR S2 for about 6 years. Thanks for listening. I also enjoy discovering the sounds of other talented musicians and singers here on SoundCloud.

Hello 

This will be at least my 4th try at writing a bio. so here goes.

I play Acoustic Guitar and sing. I write songs about a lot of people and things.  I really only play one guitar. Its an Alvarez that is made out of Mahogany. and spruce. I had a pickup installed in it.  The pickup is a " Fishman ". Id like very much to meet Mr or Ms Fishman some day and share fishing stories..

Any how... I record on Garage Band. I almost never  use the candy drum track... because Im not good at it.

I started playing Guitar at about twelve years old. My Brother Jimmy gave me a beat up Silvertone with a few strings missing. He gave it to me the day before he left for California with other hippies to spread love and peace and eat out of dumpsters.

I played pretty much non stop. I played the silvertone down to three strings. I had them tied together after they broke..  A

About a year or so after that my dear Mother bought me a brand new Alvarez with all six stings on it. It was beautiful! It was tiger maple... I was thrilled!  I wrote a lot of music at that age but no songs with lyrics. I hooked up with a bunch of guitarists in another town over and that's when things really opened up. We smoked, drank and played as often as we could. There was no limit. 

Skipping the specifics of all that teenaged crazyness. I got to working in the trades with my guitarist friend Tony. We called ourselves the  " piss poor painters " We wrote songs about that but never played them.

Life became different and I met my wife.. introduced by Tony ironically , and we had adventures together! We are still together and have a big family with kids that are getting older but are still good. A couple of Grandkids. That period of my life I put music away.. for 22 years,

More Irony: in the year 2000, My brother came over to our house and left a pretty cheap Carlo Robelli guitar. The night he left it I stayed up all night and wrote a song called " Lets get together " . It was one of the first songs I had ever written with lyrics. Of course it was a song about the passing of time and they way things were when I was younger.

From there, I pretty much wrote non stop. It turns out I had a lot of shit on my mind. It was mid-life. Like a steam roller, words and music plowed a path through my life up to then. 

I really dont know how many songs ive written since 2000.. but its a lot. I just wrote them and figured out how to record them. It took months to learn how to record one shitty lo-fi track and post it on the internet. I

I was a BIG STAR ! only no one knew it yet.. I posted on a site called acidplanet.com. My profile name was " Greenflea " Acidplanet is Long since out of business.. but for about 7 years I developed friendships with people all over the world.  Co-wrote some tunes. Had some tunes stolen by bandits..but didn't give a shit. I ended up making a CD with Carl Cutruff of New Jersey. He was a producer who took a liking to my songs. The CD was called " Always a Good Time ". It was never released. It is a good representation of what a good producer can turn a lowfi singer songwriter's  songs into. But not necessarily what I wanted my songs to be.
I began to play at open mics in about 2007 and 8.. One night I played at this bar owned by an old friend called " The Hilltop ". There were a lot of local musicians there and I did take some people by surprise with my songs. That night.. I had the makings of a band. Rick and Lumpy.. Bass and Harmonica.. and eventually Carl Heilgeist the drummer.  We played quite a few gigs. But we split up ... which I wont go into. LOL

But eventually I got together again with Rick and Larry, and we had a drummer for a while. All the while I kept writing songs. 

Im still going strong as a writer.. but honestly, Im slowing down because.. well.. I really need to record what I have written so far in case I lick the bucket unexpectedly.. which does happen to people now and then. 
Now, me personally? I do have Religious views and political views but I vowed never to put them in songs. Because nobody really cares it seems, until they find someone who hates the same things  as they do. Then it becomes negative. Since music is one of the only things that can bring us together, even when we don't speak the same language, we should try to keep it real. By real I mean pure self expression about something you love or, if you must, about some trouble in the past or present that does not name someone else as the bad guy.

So here I am.. new years day 2026. What to do? Well this year is going to be the year of real collaboration. Im looking to find folks who want to work on creating music as in cover tunes of people who want to exchange ideas in the form of music and words. Im open to collaborate in any way I can but as ive said, I rlly only play an acoustic guiter and sing.

thats me...

I hope you enjoy my songs. I know I will enjoy what others around the world have to offer. My favorite thing to listen to is a novice writer with words and music.. just pure expression from the soul as best they can. 

We really need each other. We need ears that understand why we do this.. because I really dont know why I feel the need to do this. I still dont quite understand why I sit and play and write.. just for the sake of it.  If I tell friends and family about it.. or tried to get them to a gig.. they go silent and change the subject 😂  Anyhow.

What about you?

Hi! ☺️ I am an amateur singer/songwriter with a lot of passion for singing and Music.  I mostly sing originals,  but also covers . I like to write lyrics with meaning, something people can relate to. Not necessaraly my own experiences, it can be something i heard, seen or something someone  told me...
I also make music in GarageBand with small loops I put together. And I have much fun doing this 🙃
I am very impressed with how many talented people there is on Soundcloud! And so much love and kindness!
Thank you all for listening,  likes, reposting and comments! It really means a lot to me❤️
(My own originals sounds best with ear phones )
I also have a YouTube channel with the same nick name 🎵
Take care!🥰

(And I don't use AI at all! )

There’s a treasure down deep in this hinterland
To find it, plug your nose, feel the dirt on your hands
A word,a rhyme, the message from a song, it stands
my rock n roll Rosetta Stone 



Update (January 2, 2026). 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MagLpl21qdY
I’ve posted the entire suite “In case nothing happens” on YouTube, including part 8, that is still missing here, accompanied by a very simple video.


Hello! I’m a university professor of history who enjoys playing guitar and piano/keyboard, and occasionally composing — unpretentiously, just for fun. I’ve been here for at least 10 years, but only recently have I started using the platform for something other than just external digital storage.
Most of my recordings (made with a KorgD8, Audacity, and more recently Reaper for MIDI and the Spitfire Audio libraries) are entirely homemade and decidedly imperfect. My music includes old songs (all written back in the last century; here I’ve only shared the ones I’ve reworked in recent years) as well as both old and new instrumentals.
Thanks for stopping by and giving something a listen; in the description you’ll often find explanatory notes or translations of the lyrics.

Here I’ve discovered a community of talented musicians and songwriters, and plenty of beautiful music to enjoy. Whenever I like, comment, or repost a track, it’s always the result of attentive listening. For the same reason, I’m not interested in trading empty “likes” without real engagement, and I won’t reply to messages from would-be promoters — follower counts don’t matter to me in the slightest.

Update (2024, September 9). Completed the "AI & (fake) songwriting project". Here: https://soundcloud.com/mick-hansan 

I've posted some 'live' homemade performance here: https://www.instagram.com/michele_ansani/

1997
Founder "Fluorescent Project"
_Electronic Sound Prouducer.
_Colorist
_Photographer