War is a racket
By Smedley D. Butler
Release : 2021-02-10
Genre : History, Books, Business & Personal Finance, Politics & Current Events, Political Science
Kind : ebook
War Is a Racket is the title of two works, a speech and a booklet, by retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two time Medal of Honor recipient Smedley D. Butler. In them, Butler frankly discusses from his experience as a career military officer how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare.
After his retirement from the Marine Corps, Butler made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speech “War is a Racket”. The speech was so well received that he wrote a longer version as a small book with the same title that was published in 1935.
War is a racket
By Smedley D. Butler
Release : 2021-02-10
Genre : History, Books, Business & Personal Finance, Politics & Current Events, Political Science
Kind : ebook