Living With War is the 29th studio album by Canadian / American musician Neil Young, released on May 2, 2006.

Young began writing songs for Living with War in a Gambier, Ohio, hotel room while visiting his daughter at her college.

[6] While retrieving coffee from a vending machine early one morning, Young saw the front page of a USA Today issue documenting a surgery room on an airplane flying seriously wounded US soldiers from Iraq to Germany.

[6] He later told Charlie Rose that the combination of the vivid picture and the headline (which focused not on any suffering and death depicted, but rather on medical breakthroughs made during the war) moved him: "For some reason, that was what did it to me.

In a May 2007 interview with Rolling Stone's David Fricke, Young rejects the comparison: "When I wrote "Let's Impeach the President," a lot of people criticized it as a crappy song, that it was such a terrible melody.

On April 28, 2006, the album was given a pre-release premiere in its entirety on the Los Angeles radio station KLOS (95.5) by Jim Ladd.

[1] Young has expressed that his intent is that the work be considered as a whole, and the streaming-audio internet release was the whole album, rather than individually selectable songs.

It protects my right as an artist to have the work presented the way I created it.The albums songs were performed live on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s 2006 Freedom Of Speech Tour.

Reviewing the album for Mojo magazine, Sylvie Simmons described the songs as "Urgent, instant, bolshie mostly, with a stronger individual melodic sense than, say, Greendale, but without the intense beauty of, say, Ohio … though definitely an improvement on Let's Roll".