| 词条 | War Is a Racket |
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| name = War Is a Racket | image = War Is a Racket (cover).jpg | caption = 1935 cover from the first printing | alt = 1935 cover from the first printing | author = Smedley D. Butler {{small|(Major General (Ret.), USMC)}} | title_orig = | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | subject = {{ubl|Military–industrial complex|Morality|Warfare}} | publisher = Round Table Press | pub_date = 1935 | media_type = | pages = 51 (first edition) | isbn = 9780922915866 | oclc = 3015073 | dewey = 172.4 | congress = HB195 .B8 | preceded_by = | followed_by = | native_wikisource = | wikisource = | notes = [1] | exclude_cover = | website = War Is a Racket }} 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 frankly discusses how business interests commercially benefit, such as war profiteering from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the United States occupation of Haiti, which lasted from 1915 to 1934. After Butler retired from the US Marine Corps, he 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 short book published in 1935. His work was 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 praised Butler's "moral as well as physical courage".[2] Thomas had written Smedley Butler's oral autobiography. BookIn War Is a Racket, Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, where industrialists, whose operations were subsidized by public funding, were able to generate substantial profits, making money from mass human suffering. The work is divided into five chapters:
It contains this summary: "War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes." RecommendationsIn the booklet's penultimate chapter, Butler recommended three steps to disrupt the war racket:
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References1. ^{{cite web |title=Item Information - War Is a Racket |url=https://lccn.loc.gov/35004638 |website=United States Library of Congress |accessdate=1 July 2018 |language=English}} 2. ^{{cite book |last=Thomas |first=Lowell |title=Old Gimlet Eye: Adventures of Smedley D. Butler |publisher=Farrar & Rinehart |year=1933}} External links{{Wikiquotepar|Smedley Butler}}
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