• denial of, 211-13
• enabling enemy through, 216, 221
• group absolution in, 224-25
• legitimizing of, 214
• power of, 203-15
• psychological trauma of committing, 222-26
• range of, 195-202
• refusal to participate in, 224, 225-26
• self-destructive nature of, 214-16, 221
• self-preservation in, 225, 226
• U.S. position on, 205
• in Vietnam War.
attrition warfare, 80-81
authority.
B
Babylon, destruction of, 102-04
back stabbing, 127-29, 173
Banko, Steve, 146, 173, 174, 196, 294
Barbusse, Henri, 72
Bartlett, F. C, 69, 94
Bashan, Gaby, 199
basic training, 190, 317
Battle of the Bulge, 204, 216
bayoneting, 98, 120-26, 337
• in Nazi death camps, 104
• training in, 121, 123, 190
Beebe, G. W., 52
behavioral archetypes, 184, 340-41
Belgrade, Battle of, 10-11
Berkun, Mitchell, 52, 53
Bettelheim, B., 335
Bible, 132, 337-39
Binyon, Laurence, 62
bomber crews, 59, 65, 79, 100-02, 104, 107-08
bombing, mass, 55-58, 79, 80, 97, 99-102, 104, 105, 106
bombings, strategic, 207—08
bonding
• to comrades, 90, 149-50, 153, 210-11, 269-70, 275-76
• to leaders, 144, 210-11
• through atrocities, 210-11, 214-15
Borowski, Tadeusz, 102-04
Bosnia, 211, 215
Bray, D., 198, 238
Brennan, Matt, 92
Bridger, Barry, 110
British Airborne Brigade, 82
British army, class structure in, 168
British Defense Operational Analysis Establishment, 16
British Gurkha battalions, 126
British Royal Air Force, 100
Broadfoot, Barry, 70
Brown, R. K., 335
buck fever, 29, 231
Bush, George, 242
C
Calley, William, 104, 145, 190
Cambodia, genocide in, 212
cannons, 11, 154
Canterwall, Brandon, 329
Caputo, Phillip, 79
Carrington, Charles, 200
Catton, Bruce, 26
censorship, 326-27
character disorders, 48
chariots, 153
chase instinct, 127-29
children
• effect of movies/videos on, 308, 314-16, 322
• killing of, 174-75, 266-67, 287
China, atrocities in, 215
Churchill, Winston, 166, 242
civilians
• as bombing victims.
• close-range killing of, 199-202, 263, 265-67, 287
Civil War, U.S.
• attacks during flight, 127
• discarded weapons in, 21—25
• edged-weapons combat in, 123
• ineffective firing in, 11
• killing rates, 184, 333
• legal justification for, 166-67
• musket fire in, 10
• nonfirers in, 17-27
• social support for, 279-80
civil wars, 25, 160, 166
classical conditioning, 252-53, 255, 317
• in military, 306-08
• by movies and television, 302, 308-11
Clausewitz, Carl von, 13, 71, 96, 128
close-range assault, 80, 81
close-range killing, 110, 114-37, 341-42.
