War Is A Comrades Analysis

War Is A Racket written by Smedley Butler takes the main points of what it is like to be a man in the army and also gives you the points from being in a family who has a man in the army. Smedley understands this personally because he spent thirty-three years in military service. He served in the Marines and held the rank of Major General, which was the highest rank authorized at that time. Butler was also known for becoming a spokesperson of U.S. wars and the consequences that came after serving.
Butler brings up an idea of a bill. The bill that soldiers and their family payed. “But the soldier pays the biggest part of the bill.” He explains this by talking about the American cemeteries abroad and the amount of soldiers in government hospitals. Butler talks numbers, mentioning about fifty thousand men come back destroyed, men who were once well off in their life. How the men were in a sense used …show more content…
It is said that military was given a large salary of thirty dollars a month however that number is before money is taken for dependents and accident insurance. That would leave the men with nine dollars a month but then you take into account that each man was blindsided into paying for his own clothing, food, and ammunition by buying Liberty Bonds. So sadly most men received no money at all on pay days. Butler mentioned the math on how many bonds soldiers were forced to buy and it came out to two billion dollars.
All in All, even though soldiers paid the greater bill, the family paid as well and that was the main point Smedley Butler was trying to get across. War Is A Racket takes the main points of what it is like to be a man in the army and also gives you the points from being in a family who has a man in the army. Smedley gives his own personal accounts throughout the essay. War Is A Racket is a great example of how Butler was spokesperson of U.S. wars and the consequences that came after