Nationwide Building Society On Killing Author: Dave Grossman Trade Paperback Usually ships in 24 hours Delivery is subject to warehouse availability. Shipping delays may occur if we receive more orders than stock. Our Price: $22.95 You could save $2.30 (10%) with our iREWARDS Program Ordering is 100% secure . Spend $39 or more at chapters.indigo.ca and your order ships free!. ( Details ) ISBN: 0316330116 Published: January 1996 | Published by Little, Brown & Company (Canada), Limited Our customers who bought this item also bought: Angels Don't Play This HAARP: Advances... (1995) Book ~ Nick Begich The Book of Five Rings (1994) Book ~ Miyamoto Musashi Warfighting (1995) Book ~ U. S. Marine Corps Staff chapters.indigo Review 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 dras Reader Reviews Average Reader Review: Number of Reviews: 2 1. Dramatic View of Killing in Combat Reviewer: Luciano Nisi from Coquitlam BC (liferescue@look.ca) Date: 12/14/2000 1:40:28 AM As a former Canadian Forces Airborne Medic who served in Rwanda Africa in 94' I found some very revealing facets of my experiences by reading this book. It is well written and vividly expresses numerous accounts of soldiers experiences in combat. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the psychological aspects of persons subjected to killing. It is also an indispensible training aid to those involved in Law Enforcement; to mentally prepare oneself for the ultimate decision...to kill someone because you have to, to survive. 2. Changing the face of training Reviewer: G from Toronto (cardio@platinum1.com) Date: 9/18/1999 7:01:22 AM As a use of force trainer, I found this book to be an excellent resource. The issue of why we do the things we do under stress has been a question that needed an answer. This book has dramaticly changed the way that I train others to prepare for use of force encounters. 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