War Is a Racket
 War Is a Racket is the title of two works a speech and a booklet by retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two time Medal of Honor recipient Smedley D. Butler. In them Butler frankly discusses from his experience as a career military officer how business interests commercially benefit (war profiteering) from warfare.After his retirement from the Marine Corps Butler made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speech War is a Racket.