Introduction to ‘War Is A Racket’
‘War Is A Racket’ was written in 1935 by Major Smedley Darlington Butler. A racket is defined by the Oxford English dictionary as ‘an illegal or dishonest scheme for obtaining money’. The word is most commonly used when describing a protection racket, as run by the Mafia. Smedley Darlington Butler was born in Westchester, Pennsylvania …