Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History

The University Press of Kentucky

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UPC:
9780813109572
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
7/23/1998
Release Date:
7/23/1998
Author:
Schmidt, Hans
Language:
English: Published; English: Original Language; English
Edition:
Reprint
Pages:
318
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Smedley Butler's life and career epitomize the contradictory nature of American military policy through the first part of this century. Butler won renown as a Marine battlefield hero, campaigning in most of America's foreign military expeditions from 1898 to the late 1920s. He became the leading national advocate for paramilitary police reform. Upon his retirement, however, he renounced war and imperialism and devoted his energy and prestige to various dissident and leftist political causes.