At first I thought this song was about Germanys Afrika Korps during WW2. Passages such as "on course to the east" (from Libya into Egypt) and the fact that the track is called Panzer Battalion supported this. But I'm pretty sure this track is really about the second war of Iraq. Take for example the line "this time we're here to finish a job started a decade ago", it's obviously refering to the first war of Iraq one decade before the current one. Also near the end the line "Blow their SAM sites clear for air strike" gives away the hint that it couldn't be about a 1940's conflict, there just weren't SAM systems at that point in time.
So my conclusion is that this song is not about WW2 as I first thought, but rather Iraq war 2.
At first I thought this song was about Germanys Afrika Korps during WW2. Passages such as "on course to the east" (from Libya into Egypt) and the fact that the track is called Panzer Battalion supported this. But I'm pretty sure this track is really about the second war of Iraq. Take for example the line "this time we're here to finish a job started a decade ago", it's obviously refering to the first war of Iraq one decade before the current one. Also near the end the line "Blow their SAM sites clear for air strike" gives away the hint that it couldn't be about a 1940's conflict, there just weren't SAM systems at that point in time.
So my conclusion is that this song is not about WW2 as I first thought, but rather Iraq war 2.