War is a Racket
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War is a Racket (1935) is a short work by Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, retired from the United States Marine Corps in 1931, in which he takes a cynical view of the profit motive behind warfare. He points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, in which a few entrepreneurs and businessmen made great profits off the conflict.
It is divided into five chapters:
- War is a racket
- Who makes the profits?
- Who pays the bills?
- How to smash this racket!
- To hell with war!
External links
- War is a Racket (online text) (http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm)
- War is a Racket (images of original publication) (http://www.rationalrevolution.net/special/library/war_is_a_racket.htm)