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Apr 16, 2023 01:46PM |
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On Killing by Dave Grossman
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Apr 19, 2017 07:38AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
Grossman illustrates a trends with appropriate war story. Choose three stories and analyze them. What trend in warfare do they illustrate? How do they subvert the tradition of war stories?
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Jan 25, 2015 04:49AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
In military emulation of a role model, who is the standard soldier's role model? What does this role model represent to the soldier, and how does he wish to emulate him? What aspects of aggression and manhood does this affect?
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Jan 25, 2015 04:47AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
What is operant conditioning, and how is it connected to Skinner's work with rats? To what extent is military operant training more subtly employed than traditional conditioning? How does this conditioning alter soldier behavior in chaotic combat?
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Jan 25, 2015 04:46AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
What is standard conditioning, and how is it connected to Pavlov's work with dogs? How does this type of conditioning manifest itself in military training? What specific defenses is it trying to overcome? What is its goal?
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Jan 25, 2015 04:46AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
Grossman discusses the gap in psychiatric casualties between combatants and noncombatants. Discuss this gap. What did the military predict regarding psychiatric casualties among the civilian population affected by bombing in World War II?
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Jan 25, 2015 04:45AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
The likelihood of a soldier to kill in combat is markedly improved if he feels he is not the only culpable party to the killing. Discuss this diluting of guilt. What is group absolution? Why is a soldier comforted by others around him also killing?
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Jan 25, 2015 04:44AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
Discuss about the root causes of post-traumatic stress disorder in the American military. What step of the killing process is interrupted, and what factors are involved in this stunting of emotional processing? How does PTSD manifest itself?
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Jan 25, 2015 04:41AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
Grossman applies the killing process to America after two wars of the twentieth century. Discuss the way America collectively processed killing after Hiroshima and the first Gulf War. How did this process affect American leadership?
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Jan 25, 2015 04:39AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
Using the fallout of the Vietnam War as a model, discuss what happens when the latter steps of the process are stunted? What factors are key in allowing a killer to rationalize and accept that he has killed? How were these denied to Vietnam vets?
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Jan 25, 2015 04:38AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
Discuss the steps in the killing process. Where does it begin and, ideally, how does a killer resolve the act and its emotional repercussions? Must a killer go through all of the steps in the process?
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Jan 22, 2015 05:39PM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
What evidence does Grossman provide that soldiers going back to the American Civil War have chosen not to kill? What tactics did these soldiers use to avoid killing?
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Jan 22, 2015 09:35AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
Discuss examples given from Rhodesia, the American Civil War, and two World Wars that countless of soldier chose not kill. What kind of attitude was taken by fellow soldiers to non-killers?
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Jan 22, 2015 09:33AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
What percentage in World War II never fired their weapons? Discuss why, from a noncombatant's point-of-view, this seems absurd. What were these soldiers risking by not firing, and what sort of essential drive compelled them to risk this?
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Jan 22, 2015 09:31AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
How do the authorities of the military training compare to those that young people in America listen to? What finer points does military training place on conditioning that the media in civilian life does not?
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Jan 22, 2015 09:30AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
Why is fight-or-flight not a legitimate choice in a fight between two humans? What other options are open in this case? What makes posturing such an attractive option, and how has the development of firearms only improved a soldier's ability to posture?
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Jan 22, 2015 09:21AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
What effect does exhaustion, fear and hate have on a soldier in combat? How has this manifested itself in the field? What argument does Grossman use to refute the assertion that it is the primary cause of psychiatric casualties?
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Jan 22, 2015 09:19AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
A major subject shift occurs in the last third when Grossman turns his attention away from the military and toward civilian life. How is the culture conditioning young people to be violent? How have traditional defenses against this deteriorated?
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Jan 22, 2015 09:17AM |
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Discuss the group cohesion that can occur as a result of an atrocity? How does killing unarmed noncombatants bond a group of soldiers together? How the decision not to take part in an atrocity becomes dangerous as a result of this cohesion.
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Jan 22, 2015 09:14AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
What form of empowerment is felt in an atrocity? Discuss how the active and powerful decision to kill those whom one suspects of complicity in suffering can empower a soldier. What sort of possible catharsis can occur as a result?
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Jan 22, 2015 09:14AM |
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How does fear of an unseen enemy make atrocities more likely in war? Discuss the way in which this creates emotional distance between noncombatants and soldiers. How does a catalyzing event, further increase the likelihood of this sort of atrocity?
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Jan 22, 2015 09:13AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
At the end, Grossman illustrates the hardship of Vietnam veterans with a hypothetical return home. Which types are represented, and what other war veterans are they compared to? How are these wars different? Why is Vietnam more conducive to PTSD?
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Jan 22, 2015 09:12AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
What factors were in play that made psych issues more detrimental to servicemen? What support did they lack, on the whole? In essence, how did these failings manifest themselves, and have they since been addressed?
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Jan 22, 2015 08:54AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
Grossman lists his conservative opinions, as he wants to be clear to his inclinations from the start. How does this affect reading of the policy discussion that follows? Does this affect his domestic ideas more than his military ideas?
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Jan 22, 2015 08:50AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
In summing up his arguments regarding the entertainment industry, why is Grossman confident that these changes will go into effect? Does he think the public will demand them, and why? How does reformation constitute a public emergency in his opinion?
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Jan 22, 2015 08:46AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
What recommendation does Grossman make regarding film and television? Discuss the dueling concerns that the author says these industries have and the responsibilities they share. What defense does he offer against shouts that he is censoring art?
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Jan 22, 2015 08:45AM |
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Marine Corps L.E....:
What does Grossman have to say about the world of print media? Does he think that it has any effect on the youth of America? Based upon this opinion, does Grossman suggest any major alteration to the way it goes about delivering its product?
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Jan 22, 2015 08:43AM |
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