Smedley Butler, WWI veteran and one of the most decorated Marines in US military history, challenges the preponderant American narratives behind war.

Is there justification for America’s myriad wars?

Or are they murderous scams generating obscene profits
for banks and industrial moguls?

Based on his observations while serving abroad and while dealing with issues at home, Butler observes:

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

Since its publication in 1935, War Is A Racket has become a classic expose of the forces behind modern war.

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