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Most Decorated Marine of All Time
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Please read War is a Racket by Major General Smedley Butler.
That should be required reading to get out of the eighth grade.
There’s an excellent Jocko podcast on both the man and the book. Highly recommended
The book, which is relatively short, can be freely read online. Click on link below.
War is a racket, by Smedley D. Butler
War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the 1915–1934 United States occupation of Haiti.
War is a racket, by Smedley D. Butler
War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the 1915–1934 United States occupation of Haiti.
Major General was quite smart to be able to look through the smoke and mirrors of patriotism that the government uses to fill their ranks in the war machine. One would have to surmise that Ukraine war will run 20 years so Russia and America elites can make a little money until something larger is planned.
