On Killing by Dave Grossman (1996, Paperback) 
On Killing by Dave Grossman (1996, Paperback)

 
On Killing by Dave Grossman (1996, Paperback)

Publisher: Back Bay Books
Publication Date: 1996-11-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0316330116
ISBN-13: 9780316330114
Product ID: EPID160345
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Publication Date:1996-11-01
Editor:G. Kloske

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Height:8.5 in
Width:5.5 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:16.8 oz

Publisher's Note
The twentieth century, with its bloody world wars, revolutions, and genocides accounting for hundreds of millions dead, would seem to prove that human beings are incredibly vicious predators and that killing is as natural as eating. But Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, a psychologist and U.S. Army Ranger, demonstrates this is not the case. The good news, according to Grossman - drawing on dozens of interviews, first-person reports, and historic studies of combat, ranging from Frederick the Great's battles in the eighteenth century through Vietnam - is that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to kill. In World War II, for instance, only 15 to 25 percent of combat infantry were willing to fire their rifles. The provocative news is that modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning, have learned how to overcome this reluctance. In Korea about 50 percent of combat infantry were willing to shoot, and in Vietnam the figure rose to over 90 percent. The bad news is that by conditioning soldiers to overcome their instinctive loathing of killing, we have drastically increased post-combat stress - witness the devastated psychological state of our Vietnam vets as compared with those from earlier wars. And the truly terrible news is that contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the army's conditioning techniques and - according to Grossman's controversial thesis - is responsible for our rising rates of murder and violence, particularly among the young. In the explosive last section of the book, he argues that high-body-count movies, television violence (both news and entertainment), and interactive point-and-shoot video games are dangerously similar to thetraining programs that dehumanize the enemy, desensitize soldiers to the psychological ramifications of killing, and make pulling the trigger an automatic response.

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"Mr. Grossman's thesis is that there is a powerful natural disinclination, even among soldiers, to the taking of human life, an in-bulit taboo against intraspecies destruction....'On Killing' includes fascinating statements from soldiers describing how they felt when did kill. It has stories of soldiers from opposite sides of a conflict tacitly melting away from one another, rather than shooting. Among Mr. Grossman's most incisive passages are those in which he describes the conditions under which the willingness to kill becomes greater."
New York Times - Richard Bernstein (10/13/1995)

"Grossman's most valuable section is his reiteration of the special problems faced by Vietnam veterans, who came home to an often indifferent and sometimes antagonistic reception. 'Only the veterans of Vietnam,' the author rightly points out, 'have endured a concerted, organized, psychological attack by their own people.'"
Naylor

"An illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they learn to live with the experience."
Lampert

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