War is a Racket

War is a racket

History

Butler, Smedley D.

Military

Revisionist Press

General Smedley Butler’s frank book shows how American war efforts were animated by big-business interests. This extraordinary argument against war by an unexpected proponent is relevant now more than ever.

War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier

Americas

Feral House

Noontide Press

Gainesville, Fla

War Is a Racket is written by the most decorated American soldier in US history, Major General Smedley D. Butler. Butler frankly discusses from his experience as a career military officer how business interests commercially start and benefit from warfare. After his retirement from the Marine Corps, Gen. Butler made a nationwide tour giving his speech "War is a Racket." The speech was so well-received that he wrote a longer version as this book with the same title which helped popularize his message. Lowell Thomas praised Butler's "moral as well as physical courage" in telling the truth about war profiteering. This message has never been more relevant, as we see the war racket in full swing in recent history like never before in endless perpetual wars, i.e. Iraq and Afghanistan, and elsewhere.

War is a Racket (The Profit That Fuels Warfare): The Anti-war Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Major general Smedley D. Butler the two time Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, given this he has been the most unexpected proponent against war. "In War is a Racket", Butler uses examples from the war to show that the rich benefits, the government pays and the poor dies.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Business & Money

Industries

War is a Racket: Original 1935 Edition

Chump Change

Complete 1935 edition of War is a Racket by retired Major General Smedley D. Butler USMC. Butler turns against his life-long profession and exposes war as a racket, in which the few profit and the many pay the aching costs.This is a hard-hitting book by a hard-hitting soldier.

Major General Smedley D Butler was a military hero of the first rank, the winner of two Medals of Honour, a true 'fighting marine' whose courage and patriotism could not be doubted. Yet he came to believe that the wars in which he and his men had fought and bled and died were all pre-planned conflicts, designed not so much to defend America as to bloat the balance sheets of US banks and corporations. Filled with astounding details of the benefits the few make from the sufferings of the many, 'War is A Racket' is as relevant today as when it was first written. Mark Twain's 'The War Prayer' was considered so explosive by his contemporaries that the short anti-war piece was authorized for publication only after his death. 'The Complaint of Peace' was written in 1521 by Desiderius Erasmus, one of the greatest scholars of his day, as a reaction to the warlike times in which he lived. After an interval of nearly 500 years, this thoughtful critique of war still rings true.

War Is A Racket; with The War Prayer and The Complaint of Peace

Aziloth Books

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