Tag: Smedley Butler

War Is a Racket: Smedley Butler’s Blunt Accounting of America’s Banana Wars

Major General Smedley D. Butler remains one of the most decorated Marines in American history. By the time he retired in 1931 after 33 years of service, he had earned two Medals of Honor, a Distinguished Service Medal and a chest full of campaign ribbons earned from the Spanish-American War…