On War Is a Racket
Butler, Smedley D. War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier. Feral House, 2003. pp. 80. Paperback.
An interesting little pamphlet that precedes President Eisenhower’s call to reject the military-industrial complex by some 20 years. Most of Butler’s argument is around the cost of war, which is shouldered by tax-payers and dead, wounded, or psychologically injured soldiers. I think most of this is (or should be) common knowledge to the American people now, but it resonates as much today as it did 80 years ago.