“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 in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” — Major General Smedley Butler, USMC (1935)
Major General Smedley Butler spoke these words in 1935, after a career that had made him one of the most decorated Marines in American history. He had fought in nearly every major conflict of his era—from Cuba to China to Mexico. And he had come to a conclusion that would haunt him for the rest of his life: war was not a noble struggle for freedom. It was a business. The most profitable business on earth.
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