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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 (including war profiteering) from warfare.After his retirement from the Marine Corps, Butler made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speech "War is a Racket".

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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 (including war profiteering) from warfare.After his retirement from the Marine Corps, Butler made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speech "War is a Racket".
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