US Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler collected an award cabinet full of medals for his battlefield bravery.
War Is a Racket is the title of the influential speech Butler delivered on a tour across the United States, as well the expanded version of the.
It was business interests, he revealed, who commercially benefited from warfare.
But perhaps his bravest act of all was to declare, after his retirement in the early 1930s, who was really winning (and losing) during the bloody clashes.
US Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler collected an award cabinet full of medals for his battlefield bravery