WAR IS STILL
A RACKET

A modern deep dive into the business of war.
Learn how the legacy of Smedley Butler lives on.

War is not chaos. It is business.
In War Is Still a Racket, the old lie is dragged into the present day and dissected without sentiment. Building on the brutal logic of General Smedley Butler’s original indictment, this book shows how the machinery of war still turns profit for insiders while ordinary people carry the cost in lives, taxes, broken families, shattered minds, and permanent instability. Butler’s original framework was simple: who profits, who pays, and how the racket survives. That structure still holds

This book updates that argument for the modern era of defense contractors, financial engineering, media management, geopolitical manipulation, private influence networks, and perpetual conflict branding. It is not a celebration of ideology, left or right. It is an exposure of incentives.

Inside, you will find a direct examination of war profiteering, the political and financial systems that normalize endless intervention, the human toll hidden behind patriotic language, and the psychological tricks used to sell destruction as necessity.

This is a book for readers who want the mask removed.
If you have ever suspected that war is marketed, packaged, financed, and exploited like any other high-margin enterprise, this book gives you the structure, the language, and the historical continuity to see it clearly.

War is STILL a Racket by RL Kendrick
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“And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars:see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.”
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