Of course there is no innate resistance to killing other humans. All history and all prehistory is evidence to that.
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
George S. Patton
I finally found a word that's even dumber than ufology.
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SLA Marshall’s dubious research is well known in military history circles, but he did have experience as a combat infantryman in World War I. Dave Grossman, on the other hand, has had no combat experience as near as I can tell. He throws around his rank and his Ranger School experience, but without any combat experience, I find his credibility suspect.
My own experience is that training is essential to making effective combat soldiers, but training is not about overcoming their reluctance to kill, training teaches them how to effectively use their equipment, including weapons; it teaches them how to work together as a combat unit, and it give them confidence that they can do the job. Couple that training with good leadership and soldiers will perform well in combat including killing the enemy.
This is a bunch of psychobabble from some guy who wants everyone to believe that he is a real warrior. He is a trained soldier, but his lack of combat experience is a glaring hole in his resume.
At Cannae Hannibal’s army had 50,000 men. 2% of that would be 1000 men. Apparently this 1000 killed the 70,000 or so Romans who died there.
Their arms must have gotten awful tired.
wow..........
“Patriots always talk of dying for their country, but never of killing for their country.”
– Bertrand Russell
He was such a typical lying Pinko.
“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”
George S. Patton
Whether or not Grossman’s analysis is correct, I always believed the most important message to come out of his works was the dangerous conditioning effect of the casual violence that pervades modern media and entertainment? I know many would deny any such link, but not everyone has the same level of intelligence nor discrimination between right and wrong?
Grossman has come up with some far out of left field, moonbat crazy theories. Remember when he said arcade games were teaching children to shoot people better.