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War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
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The decorated U.S. general who exposed war profiteering and called modern warfare a business scheme.
One of the most explosive antiwar documents ever written, War Is a Racket is the 1935 speech and pamphlet in which Major General Smedley Butler—one of the most decorated Marines in U.S. history—publicly declared that modern warfare serves corporate profit more than national defense. Drawing on decades of military service in Central America, the Caribbean, and China, Butler delivers a blunt in...