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 from warfare. After his retirement from the Marine Corps, Gen. 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 ...
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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 from warfare. After his retirement from the Marine Corps, Gen. 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 by Round Table Press, Inc., of New York. The booklet was also condensed in Reader's Digest as a book supplement which helped popularize his message. In an introduction to the Reader's Digest version, Lowell Thomas, the "as told to" author of Butler's oral autobiographical adventures, praised Butler's "moral as well as physical courage"
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Booklet is the word for this, about twenty pages. Cogent and prescient about the coming war in Europe, but Butler's solution to disarm the world is a fantasy unworthy of an adult.
mfontan
May 30, 2014
A real eye opener
An extremely interesting book. Its only defect is being too short, as General Butler could no doubt have enlightened us with much more information he certainly had.
Anyway, I think this book may be an excellent tool for people of all persuasions to use and learn to think by themselves, to be critical and not accept propaganda as facts.
I seriously recommend it.
