Art as a weapon

Yesterday on the radio, I was listening to AC/DC's song, "Thunderstruck" (the video for which can be seen here on YouTube). That song always reminds me of the war against Al-Qaeda, because I remember a U.S. Navy sailor saying that the song was blasted across the deck of one of the aircraft carriers, the night that the U.S. first launched fighter jets against terrorists in Afghanistan.  No one knew back then that it'd be about ten years before Osama Bin Laden's skull was cracked by a bullet, but there would be plenty of other action and successes in the meantime.   In particular I remember Mohammed Atef, Al-Qaeda's military leader, being killed by an airstrike in the early stages of the war.  


I've also read that the U.S. military, as a passive form of persuasion, will sometimes play Western music at extremely loud decibels at terrorist hideouts, in an attempt to force them to give themselves up (or at least to annoy them greatly during a stand-off).  It's interesting to see art being used as a weapon.  Surely there have been enough instances where war has been waged against art, such as Hitler's persecution of "degenerate" European modern artists, and the incalculable damage and looting done at museums in war zones around the world..!