All nations ought get together and scrap every ship, every gun, every rifle, every tank, every war place. Download or stream war is a racket by smedley butler. Eisenhower also warned us of the military industrial partnership and so gen. He has guts to tell those in the government and industry what he really thinks about war and how people profit by it. Fbi file on antiwar activist smedley butler, author of war is a racket. Butler was, at the time of his death, the most decorated marine in u. This was a speech given by general butler during a nationwide tour in the early 1930s, but it applies even more today.
Butler full audiobook greatest audiobooks smedley darlington butler july 30, 1881. General butler pulls no punches and tells it like it is. And during that period i spent most of my time being a highclass muscle man for big business, for wall street, and for the bankers. War is a racket is marine general smedley butlers classic treatise on why wars are conducted, who profits from them, and who pays the price. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. War is a racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by smedley d.
Butler embarked on a national lecture tour, where he gave. War is a racket by major general smedley butler asmr math, politics, softspoken, reading duration. Butler, a retired united states marine corps major general and twotime medal of honor recipient. Butler, a retired major general in the us marine corps, draws on his experience of warfare to compare and contrast the lot of the poor ordinary soldier. A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. War is a racket kindle edition by butler, smedley, fretwell, simon. Few people are as qualified as general butler to advance the argument encapsulated in his books sensational tit. After his retirement from the marine corps in the early 1930s, general smedley d. As one of the most highly decorated marines in the history of the us marine corps and as a passionate and eloquent speaker about the racket that is war, smedley butler deserves to be a household name. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. War is a racket, by major general smedley butler, 1935. These events led butler to publish a short book that today still gives us a realistic and truthful picture of the forces keeping this nation in a perpetual state of emergency, involving us in war after war against other nations, and diverting so much of our wealth and resources to military buildup. Butler embarked on a national lecture tour, where he gave his speech about how commercial interests benefit from war. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
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