On Killing

Best Book I've Read in Years

Howdy,

I’m nearly done with Lt Col (ret) Dave Grossman’s incredible work On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society. Grossman, who was a prior-enlisted Army Ranger, is a trained psychologist who published this tour de force in 1995. I had been eyeing it for decades, but never pulled the trigger (pun intended). Sometimes bo…