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Vor 2 Tagen · Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1987. Stone, Grant Hamilton. “Smedley D. Butler, Anti-Democratic Dissidence, and the Recession of the American Right 1932-1936.” Master's thesis. University of Chicago, 2021. Footnotes: 1.
Vor 4 Tagen · Johnny the Hard’s commanding officer, Major Smedley D. Butler, determined that another marginal fitness report or even transferring the seemingly troublesome Hughes out of his battalion was less punishment than deserved. On 24 May 1912, Butler cabled Major General Commandant William P. Biddle: “Consider Captain Hughes menace to welfare command. Request return to arrest or immediate ...
Vor einem Tag · The corvée system was found in Haiti's rural code by Major Smedley D. Butler, who testified that forced labor cut the cost of 1 mile (1.6 km) of road construction from $51,000 per mile to $205 per mile. The corvée resulted in the deaths of hundreds to thousands of Haitians.
- July 28, 1915 – August 1, 1934, (19 years and 4 days)
- U.S. victory, U.S. interests in Haiti protected, Profits for National City Bank of New York
- Haiti
Vor einem Tag · General Smedley D. Butler, 26 de mayo de 1933 “En América Latina, los ejércitos son las instituciones más imperantes, por lo que es necesario mantener lazos con ellos. El dinero que les enviamos es dinero tirado por el cano en el sentido estrictamente militar, pero es dinero invertido en un sentido político”.
Vor 3 Tagen · ― Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier With sadness, I watched those darling, young Cub Scouts (Casey achieved rank of Eagle Scout) being force-fed patriotism and its even more terrible cousin, nationalism. As a recovering "good American" myself, I was a Girl and Boy Scout Leader, so, I ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Putin’s Strategic Blunder. Paul Craig Roberts. The blunder began years before February 2022. Putin failed to realize that the US was preparing the overthrow of the Ukraine government. When the overthrow began, Putin took no action to prevent the overthrow. Instead, Russia permitted Washington to take over the former province of the Russian state.
In high school the worst that could happen is maybe it was harder to find a partner for projects, here it can literally affect your entire time in the military. You’re forced to pick between either staying true to your values or becoming the person that shits on others and throws others under the bus for personal gain.
