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For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.

Smedley Butler
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Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.8, The Forlorn Press
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.