On Killing

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law-enforcement agencies, 320, 339

• shoot-no shoot program, 257, 260, 315

• training of, 256

Lawrence, T. E., 195-96

leaders, 334

• in atrocities, 224

• bonding to, 144, 210-11

• denial by, 148, 168

• fears of, 64-65

• fortitude replenished by, 85

• guilt of, 90-91, 147-48

• honors for, 91

• killing of, 174

• motivation of troops by, 90, 143-46, 168, 334

Lee, Robert E., 26

legal affirmation, 165-67

Leinbaugh, Harold, 333

Leonhard, Robert, 80

Levin, Jack, 346

life instinct (Eros), 37, 332

Lind, William, 80, 333

long-range killing, 108-10

Lord, F. A., 21

Lorenz, Konrad, 6, 151

Lost Battalion of World War I, 148

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Mac Arthur, Douglas, 69

machine-gun crews, 18, 108, 153

machine guns, 11, 104, 154

Majdalany, Fred, 126

Manchester, William, 75, 87-88, 115-16, 179, 337

maneuver warfare, 80

Marchand, W. E., 43-44, 61, 180, 181, 184, 189, 235

Marcus Aurelius, 38

Marin, Peter, 35-36, 91, 96

Marine Corps, U.S., 82, 147, 253

Marks, T. P., 200

Marsh, Peter, 6

Marshall, John Douglas, 333—34

Marshall, S. L. A., 1, 3, 15-16, 20, 29-30, 33, 35, 118, 139, 144, 150, 181, 184-85, 189, 251, 333-34, 344

Master, John, 18

Mater, Milton, 27-28, 34-35, 333

Mauldin, Bill, 69, 147

Mau Mau Uprising, 162

maximum-range killing, 107-08

Mclntyre, Benjamin, 11

McKenna, Bob, 121

means of killing, 171-73, 189

mechanical distance, 108, 109, 158, 160, 169-70, 189, 340

medals. See honors, value of

media. See also movies, violence in; television, violence in; video games, violence in

• sex-aggression linkage, 135

• violence in, 34, 88, 324-30

medical personnel, 62-64, 335

medical technology, 301, 304

Medved, Michael, 326, 328

memorials. See monuments, role of

memory, effect of, 75, 95-96

mentally ill. See psychiatric casualties

mercenaries, 145, 180, 224

Metelmann, Henry, 158-59

midbrain, 8, 9

midrange killing, 110-12, 118

Milgram, Stanley, 141-43, 144, 187-89, 190

Military Academy, U.S., 82

military history, role of, 33-34

miss, intentional, 9-15

missile crews, 108

mock firing, 21-25

Moluccan train siege, 159

Montgomery, Field Marshal, 85-86

monuments, role of, 264, 274-75. See also Vietnam Veterans Memorial

moral distance, 99, 158, 160, 164-67, 189, 209, 339-40

moral framework

• of conditioning, 292-93

• for killing, 180, 196-202, 226-27, 337-39

• prisoners, treatment of, 203—04

moral pain. See guilt

Moran, Lord, 58, 63, 72, 83, 84, 85, 86, 125, 205, 234, 276

Morris, Jim, 201

Moskos, Charles C, Jr., 344, 345

motive, for killing, 171, 173-76, 189

movies, violence in, 34, 95, 261, 302, 323-30

• classical conditioning, 308-11

• role models, 319-22

murder, 174, 195, 337, 342

• in America, 299-301, 304

• mass, 208-10

• medical technology and, 301, 304