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This title in other editionsOn Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Societyby Dave Grossman
Synopses & ReviewsBook News Annotation:Grossman examines the effects that killing people has on individual
soldiers and on the U.S. as a whole. He shows that most soldiers
don't want to kill, and describes the lengths to which the military
must go in order to override soldiers' inhibitions and get them to
kill people. Despite this indoctrination, soldiers who kill pay a
huge psychological price, especially in terms of post-traumatic
stress. Grossman suggests that a similar process of desensitization
toward killing and violence has taken place in U.S. society in the
past two decades, largely a result of violence in the electronic
media. (He singles out violent video games as a culprit.) He warns
that the resulting increase in killing and violent behavior is a
grave danger to the nation's future. A new introduction shows how
events since the book's original publication in 1995 have validated
Grossman's conclusions about killing and societal violence. Dave
Grossman is a former psychology professor at West Point and current
director of the Killology Research Group.
Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:The good news is that most soldiers are loath to kill. But armies have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. And contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the army's conditioning techniques, and, according to Lt. Col. 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. Now, Grossman has updated this classic work to include information on 21st-century military conflicts, recent trends in crime, suicide bombings, school shootings, and more. The result is a work certain to be relevant and important for decades to come. Synopsis: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. Now, Grossman has updated this classic work to include information on 21st-century military techniques.
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