War Is a Racket
The life and times of Smedley Butler.
Smedley Butler was already the most famous soldier in America when, in 1931, he accused Benito Mussolini of willfully killing a child with his car. Butler, a decorated Marine Corps general, made the allegation during a speech about “mad-dog states” at a luncheon in his native Philadelphia. The story, which had the ring of a […]