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 capitalists made great profits off the loss and the suffering of many and in spite of public cost.
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!
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