On Killing
On Killing The revised and updated edition of Lt. Col. But armies have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. Dave Grossman's modern classic, hailed by the Washington…
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On Killing
The revised and updated edition of Lt. Col. But armies have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. Dave Grossman's modern classic, hailed by the Washington Post as an illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they live with the experiences of having killed.The good news is that most soldiers are loath to kill.
Dave Grossman's thesis, is responsible for our rising rate of murder among the young.Upon its initial publication, On Killing was hailed as a landmark study of the techniques the military uses to overcome the powerful reluctance to kill, of how killing affects soldiers, and of the societal implications of escalating violence. And contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the army's conditioning techniques, and, according to Lt. Col. Now, Grossman has updated this classic work to