General Butler was a Marine who fought in the Phillipines, in China during the Boxer Rebellion (He was put in for an award there but apparently commisioned officers weren't allowed to be awarded the Medal of Honor at that time), in Mexico at Vera Cruz where he received his first MOH, in Haiti in 1915 (where he received his second MOH), in WW1 where he received other medals, and later in Chiina and in the US in trying to clean up a corrupt city.
The book is in two parts, the first being the speech he gave where he stated that war is a racket and noted, in orderly fashion, the providers of materiel who were rewarded by war. Industrialists, clothing and shoe manufacturers, bankers, metal and aircraft makers, shipbuilders, etc.
He did make some recommendations such as have the people who profited from war be the first to go fight.
Part two is General Butler's biography and is interesting, too. He called a spade a spade and it cost him by his not becoming Commandant.
The book is small at 110 pages but is a useful and pleasant read.
