On Combat: A Primer

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman 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. Col. Grossman was a West Point Psychology Professor, Professor of Military Science, and an Army Ranger. He combined his experiences to become the founder of a new field of scientific endeavor that has been termed "killology."� In this new field, Col. Grossman has made revolutionary 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. Col. 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, and numerous entries in scholarly journals, including the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.