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Could You Kill? |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: K.E. Moyer |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1996 |
| Size: 2,355 Words, 13,982 Characters |
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ON KILLING
The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill
in War and Society
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
New York: Little, Brown and Co., 1995
367 pp., $24.95
In the book On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, we are introduced to a new discipline, killology. Author Dave Grossman would appear to be an expert on the subject. He has served in the Army for twenty years. He rose through the ranks of enlisted men to become a lieutenant colonel. He has taught psychology at West Point, been assigned to the Arctic tundra and jungles of Central America, and served in the Vietnam War. He is a parachute infantryman and an Army Ranger. To prepare for this book, he interviewed hundreds of soldiers on how it feels to kill. The sum and substance of...
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...the pistol. He is immediately rewarded when the target falls.
Grossman says, and rightly so, "What we must realize is that our society is trapped in a pathological spiral with all vectors pulling inward and toward a tighter and tighter cycle of violence and destruction."
FOOTNOTE: *K.E. Moyer, Violence and Aggression: A Physiological Perspective (New York: Paragon House, 1987), 26--33.
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