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War Is a Racket
1935 cover from the first printing
Author
Smedley D. Butler (Major General (Ret.), USMC)
Country
United States
Language
English
Subject
Military–industrial complex
Morality
Warfare
Publisher
Round Table Press
Publication date
1935
Pages
51 (first edition)
ISBN
9780922915866
OCLC
3015073
Dewey Decimal
172.4
LC Class
HB195 .B8
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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] 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.
After Butler retired from the US Marine Corps in October 1931, he 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 short book published in 1935. His work was 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, who wrote Butler’s oral autobiography, praised Butler's "moral as well as physical courage".[3]
^"Item Information - War Is a Racket". United States Library of Congress. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
^Butler, Smedley (1935). War is a racket. New York: Round Table Press, Inc. hdl:2027/inu.32000014248506.
^Thomas, Lowell (1933). Old Gimlet Eye: Adventures of Smedley D. Butler. Farrar & Rinehart.
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