War Is A Racket eBook Smedley Butler
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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 from warfare.
After his retirement from the Marine Corps, Gen. Butler 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 small book with the same title that was published in 1935 by Round Table Press, Inc., of New York. The booklet was also 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, the "as told to" author of Butler's oral autobiographical adventures, praised Butler's "moral as well as physical courage"
War Is A Racket eBook Smedley Butler
If you don't know about Smedley Butler, the most decorated general of his day, you should read this and his biography. He led troops in China, Cuba, S America, and WWI. He reveals why we have gone to war in the past. It seems like nothing has changed... He probably saved our democracy. The millionaires of his day did not want the New Deal and offered him money to raise an army to overthrow FDR. Instead, he went public with the plot and testified before congress. Why don't we learn about him in school?Product details
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War Is A Racket eBook Smedley Butler Reviews
This is a really difficult read by someone who has slowly come to realize the true evils of war and who profits from it. The author is not some pacifist coward but a warrior who has realized that he and the ones he served with in battle have been had by some very evil men. We are a military family but right now the VA IS BEING EXPOSED FOR THE UNCARING GROUP THAT IT IS CONCERNING OUR VETERANS. You either have to ignore the evidence and personal experience or begin to free yourself from the war manipulators.
Apparently, some things are timeless in the "military-industrial racket".
General Smedley Butler, the most decorated American soldier probably ever, points out in this essay some MIC moves that remind the reader of skullduggery in the Iraq War, Vietnam War, etc.
Long before General Eisenhower's classic speech, General Butler sounded the alarm.
I guess leave it to the soldiers to be able to spot this stuff.
Great read, highly recommended.
I’d heard of this book >25 years ago but only recently opened it. It is a powerful dissertation on the ultimate causes of war (financial enrichment), the payers (taxpayers), the winners (bankers & politicians), the losers (every human, even of the winning side). Instead of bring booty and riches war always brings debt & broken bodies … all well discussed.
The writing is tight and direct. Butler, having personally witnessing war doesn’t mince words in discussing and horror of it all. His dissertation is dropped right into the reader’s lap disallowing him to squirm away. Although written over 80 years ago it remains tops in the ultimate analysis of war.
Not discussed is Butler’s transition from warmonger to peacemaker. Also not discussed is how war breeds anger-hatred-xenophobia and primes the people of the winning side for the next war.
There are 4 quotes not mentioned in this book that needs ventilation
• I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. Sherman
• Of all the enemies of liberty, war is the most dreaded, because it is the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these precede debts and taxes; and armies, debts, and taxes are the instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war the discretionary power of the Executive is extended — all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. Madison, 1787
• To convince the people that war is necessary all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peace makers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country. H. Goering
• Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is presented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. Orwell
War is the ultimate malignancy.
Required reading for the current time and times past. Smedley Butler was a brave, rousing, American soldier. His experiences and observations from the 1930s, echo into many foreign and domestic policies and hotspots making headlines today. It's sort of like a confession of an economic hitman 40 years before John Perkins wrote his book. It's daring and threadbare in showing the unvarnished aftermath and policies that guided men and nations to war then, before then, and today. Until the 1950s, this book was in American classrooms. It still ought to be. Since it printing, little of its force has been lost.
If you don't know about Smedley Butler, the most decorated general of his day, you should read this and his biography. He led troops in China, Cuba, S America, and WWI. He reveals why we have gone to war in the past. It seems like nothing has changed... He probably saved our democracy. The millionaires of his day did not want the New Deal and offered him money to raise an army to overthrow FDR. Instead, he went public with the plot and testified before congress. Why don't we learn about him in school?
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