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In this study, the author delves into this taboo subject of killing and covers the following topics:

■ the existence of an innate human resistance to killing one’s own kind and the psychological mechanisms that various armies have developed over the centuries to overcome this resistance;

■ the role of atrocities in war and the mechanisms by which armies become capable of committing such atrocities, but also become trapped in them;

■ what it feels in the moment of killing and the stages of responding to a killing in combat;

■ techniques that have been used with great success in modern combat training to train soldiers to overcome resistance to killing;

■ how American soldiers in Vietnam were first trained as efficient killers and then denied moral support, and the terrible price paid by the three million American veterans of that war, their families and their entire society.

This study will also provide insight into how societal divisions are combined with the display of violence in the media and in interactive video games.

About the author:

Dave Grossman is a military officer with over twenty years of experience. He served as a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division, a platoon leader in the 9th (High-Tech Experimental) Division, a General Staff officer, and a company commander in the 7th (Light) Infantry Division. Paratrooper and army ranger.

He has served in the Arctic tundra, the jungles of Central America, NATO and Warsaw Pact headquarters and countless mountains and deserts. He graduated from military schools ranging from the NCO Academy of the XVIII Airborne Corps to the British Army Staff College.

He graduated with honours with a bachelor’s degree in history and a postgraduate degree in psychology with Kappa Delta Pi honours. He had the honour of serving as General Westmoreland’s co-presenter to the national leadership of the American Vietnam Veterans Coalition and was the keynote speaker at the Coalition’s Sixth Annual Convention. He has held academic positions ranging from junior high school guidance counsellor to professor of psychology at West Point. He was a professor of military science and chair of the Department of Military Science at the University of Arkansas.

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