The good news is that most soldiers are loath to kill.
The result is a work certain to be relevant and important for decades to come..
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.
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.
Dave Grossman\'s thesis, is responsible for our rising rate of murder among the young.
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And contemporary civilian society, particularly the media, replicates the army\'s conditioning techniques, and, according to Lt.
But armies have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion.
The good news is that most soldiers are loath to kill
