War Is a Racket

What happened

War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book by Smedley D. Butler , a retired United States Marine Corps major general and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Based on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit from warfare . He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the 1915–1934 United States occupation of Haiti .

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