His tune "Fauxjobim, " in the middle of the program, makes covert reference to the Sousa march "Stars and Stripes Forever, " which is radically recast as a slow ballad at the end of the disc.
It is a war that has expanded in recent years to other countries in the Middle East and Africa, such as Yemen and Somalia, where the U.S. has engaged in covert military operations against al Qaeda-affiliated groups.