War Is a Racket is a 1935 polemic by Smedley D. Butler, one of the most decorated Marines in U.S. history, exposing war as a business enterprise driven by profit rather than patriotism. Drawing on his career across Latin America, China, and World War I, Butler argues that financiers, arms manufacturers, and industrial magnates reap enormous gains while soldiers and civilians pay in blood and taxes. He details how corporate interests influence foreign policy, inflate fear, and manipulate public opinion to justify conflict. Butler proposes radical reforms: restricting war to true national defense, conscripting capital alongside troops, and removing profit from arms production. The work remains a foundational critique of the military-industrial complex and a warning about war engines today.
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