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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 .
In 1935, Butler wrote the book War Is a Racket, where he argued that imperialist motivations had been the cause behind several American interventions, many of which he personally participated in. Butler also became a advocate for populist politics, speaking at meetings organized by veterans, pacifists, and church groups until his death in 1940.
The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents." [5] also published as the booklet War Is a Racket. [5] The "Facts and Fancies" column in the May 1935 issue of Common Sense (p. 25) included this item from Senator Robert La Follette, Jr., based on statistics from a 1926 Federal Trade Commission ...
Almost 2 million men and women who served in Iraq or Afghanistan are flooding homeward, profoundly affected by war. Their experiences have been vivid. Dazzling in the ups, terrifying and depressing in the downs. The burning devotion of the small-unit brotherhood, the adrenaline rush of danger, the nagging fear and loneliness, the pride of service.
War profiteering cases are often brought under the Civil False Claims Act, which was enacted in 1863 to combat war profiteering during the Civil War. [29] Major General Smedley Butler, United States Marine Corps, criticized war profiteering of US companies during World War I in War Is a Racket. He wrote that some companies and corporations ...
The plot planned to install retired Major General Smedley Butler as dictator of the United States.. The Business Plot, also called the Wall Street Putsch [1] and the White House Putsch, was a political conspiracy in 1933, in the United States, to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and install Smedley Butler as dictator.
I shout out while excitedly and repeatedly jumping up and down while waving both hands and arms that it is imperative that "War is a Racket" must retain its own entry. The ongoing class war within the USA makes Butler's writing more important than ever. The Disgruntled Old Coot wrote this.Obbop 13:37, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
Smedley D. Butler (1881–1940), Major General in the United States Marine Corps and author of War is a Racket; Thomas S. Butler (1855–1928), American congressman [57] Charles Roden Buxton (1875–1942), British Member of Parliament [58]