- Combat, Homicide, Military Psychology, Psychological aspects
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.
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- Author
- Dave Grossman, Dave Grossman, Lt Grossman
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 377
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, Back Bay Books (Little, Brown and Co.), Little Brown & Company
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781497629219
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“One of the roots of our misunderstanding of the psychology of the battlefield lies in the misapplication of the fight-or-fight model to the stresses of the battlefield.”
David Allen Grossman (born August 23, 1956) is an American author and trainer who conducts seminars on the psychology of lethal force. He is a retired lieutenant colonel in the United States Army. **Source**: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Grossman_(author)" target="blanck">Dave Grossman</a> on Wikipedia.
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