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Lieutenant Colonel David A. Grossman,
USA (ret.) “is an internationally recognized scholar, author, soldier, and speaker who is one of the world s foremost
experts in the field of human aggression and the roots of violence and violent crime. Colonel Grossman is a West Point psychology
professor, Professor of Military Science, and an Army Ranger who has combined his experiences to become the founder of a new
field of scientific endeavor, which he has termed killology.
In this new field Colonel Grossman
has made revolutionary new contributions to our understanding of killing in war, the psychological costs of war, the root
causes of the current "virus" of violent crime that is raging around the world, and the process of healing the victims
of violence, in war and peace. He is the author of On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War
and Society, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and is required reading in classes at West Point, the
U.S. Air Force Academy, police academies worldwide, and peace studies programs in numerous universities and colleges. Stop
Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence, co-authored with Gloria
DeGaetano, has received international acclaim. Colonel Grossman s book On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology
of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace, now in its third edition, is on the USMC Commandant's required reading
list and is required reading at the DEA Academy. Colonel Grossman has been called upon to write the entry on Aggression and
Violence in the Oxford Companion to American Military History, three entries in the Academic Press Encyclopedia of Violence,
Peace and Conflict and numerous entries in scholarly journals, to include the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. He
has presented papers before the national conventions of the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association,
the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has presented to over 40 different colleges
and universities world-wide. He has served as an expert witness and consultant in state and Federal courts, to include United
States vs. Timothy McVeigh. He helped train mental health professionals after the Jonesboro school shootings, and he was also
involved in counseling, training, or court cases in the aftermath of the school shootings at Paducah, Springfield, Littleton,
Nickel Mines Amish School, and Virginia Tech. He has testified before U.S. Senate and Congressional committees and numerous
state legislatures, and he and his research have been cited in a national address by the President of the United States.
Lieutenant Colonel David A Grossman
is an Airborne Ranger infantry officer, and a prior-service sergeant and paratrooper, with a total of over 23 years experience
in leading U.S. soldiers worldwide. He retired from the Army in February 1998 and has devoted himself full-time to teaching,
writing, speaking, and research. Today he is the director of the Killology Research Group, and in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist
attacks he is on the road almost 300 days a year, training elite military and law enforcement organizations worldwide about
the reality of combat.”
Lieutenant Colonel David A Grossman
is the author of On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society. He
is also the coauthor of The Two-Space War; On Combat, The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War
and in Peace; Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie, and Video Game Violence; and, The War with
Earth.
According to the book description of
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, “Drawing on interviews,
published personal accounts and academic studies, Grossman investigates the psychology of killing in combat. Stressing that
human beings have a powerful, innate resistance to the taking of life, he examines the techniques developed by the military
to overcome that aversion. His provocative study focuses in particular on the Vietnam war, revealing how the American soldier
was "enabled to kill to a far greater degree than any other soldier in history." Grossman argues that the breakdown
of American society, combined with the pervasive violence in the media and interactive video games, is conditioning our children
to kill in a manner siimilar to the army's conditioning of soldiers: "We are reaching that stage of desensitization
at which the infliction of pain and suffering has become a source of entertainment: vicarious pleasure rather than revulsion.
We are learning to kill, and we are learning to like it." Grossman, a professor of military science at Arkansas State
University, has written a study of relevance to a society of escalating violence.”
The Authors said of Stop
Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie, and Video Game Violence, “The goal of this
book is to make people aware of what the prolific use of violence in television, movies, and video games is doing to our children.
Teaching Our Kids to Kill calls to the table the makers of this violence to address the myriad scientific research on the
subject--research that couldn't make it clearer how solid and deadly the link is between this kind of graphic imagery
and the escalating incidences of youth violence--and understand and change what they are doing and the dangerous effects their
products are having on our children. Using this book, parents, educators, social service workers,
youth advocates, and anyone interested in the welfare of our children will have a solid foundation for effective action. We
give you the facts--what's behind the statistics, how to interpret the copious, empirical research that exists on the
subject, and the many ways to make a difference in your own home, at school, in your community, in the courts, and in the
larger world--so that we all can work together to help end this problem and create a safer environment in which to live. If
by doing this we can prevent future Paducahs, Jonesboros, and Littletons, it will be well worth it.”
The According to the book description
of War with Earth, “New Kashubia was a planet rich in heavy metals, but utterly lacking in
carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. Even dirt had to be imported at great expense. The colonists, moved there from Earth against
their will, lived in tunnels drilled through solid gold but still were the poorest people in the universe. Since their only
resource was people, they sent draftees out as mercenaries, fighting in tanks in symbiosis with a highly intelligent computer.
And Mickolai Derdowski had fought bravely and brilliantly for nearly a decade, losing many friends in the process, and risen
to the rank of General-he thought. But then he found out that it was all in virtual reality. The war had been faked, no one
had died, and he was still just a tank commander, not a general at all. But New Kashubia had been well paid by the planet
that had hired the mercenaries for the war they had faked, severe food rationing back home was no longer necessary, and people
could now afford luxuries like homes and clothing. There was just one problem. A real war was looming on the horizon and this
one couldn't be settled in cyberspace. A lot of people might get really, permanently killed.”
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