
A classic speech and book by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient, critiquing the military-industrial complex and the profit-driven motivations behind war.
We could go all the way back to Smemedley Butler and Smemedley Butler's War as a racket, which I always point up
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"The speaker explicitly mentions Smedley Butler and his book 'War is a Racket' while discussing historical motivations for conflict."