• of prisoners and civilians, 199-205
murder-suicides, 241—43
Murphy, Audie, 155
Murry, Simon, 72, 94
muskets, 9, 10, 11, 18-19, 20, 21-25
My Lai incident, 104, 136, 145, 163, 187, 190-91, 314
N
Nagasaki, bombing of, 108
name-calling, 161, 252
Napoleon, 17, 67, 70, 154
Napoleonic Wars, 8, 9, 10, 122, 184, 333
Narut, Dr., 306-07
natural soldiers, 61, 180-85
naval personnel
• fear of, 58-59
• killing by, 107-08
• psychiatric casualties, 58-59
• resistance to killing by, 59
Navy, U.S., 68, 160
Nazi concentration camps, 102-05, 106, 215
• denial of, 211-12
• hate in, 78-79
Nazis, 161-62
• atrocities, 195, 206, 208-09
• war against Russia, 214
New Guinea tribes, 12
Newson, Elizabeth, 328
nightmares, 47
night-vision devices, 169, 172
noble enemy, killing of, 195-96
Nock, Arthur, 12
noise
• as posturing, 8-9
• trauma caused by, 112—13, 116
noncombatants, killing of, 174-76, 194
nonfirers, 15-16, 29
• in Falklands War, 178, 258
• in U.S. Civil War, 17-27
• in Vietnam War, 250
• in World War I, 27-28
• in World War II, 3-4
nonkillers, 62-64, 233
• at close range, 118-19
• group influence and, 155
• guilt of, 89-91
• at midrange, 118
• post-traumatic stress disorder and, 284-85
• response to killing by, 244
• who are prepared to kill, 259-60
Norris, W., 46
O
obedience-demanding authority, 141-48, 182, 187, 209, 295, 334, 341, 342
• in atrocities, 221, 224-26
• training to accept, 260-61, 319
• video games and, 303, 314
O’Brien, Tim, 190
obsessions, 47-48, 233, 234-36
officers.
older comrades, role of, 263, 265
Ooley, Robert, 91
operant conditioning, 177, 252-53, 255, 302, 313-16, 317, 340
opportunity to kill, 171-73, 189
oppressed peoples, disloyalty of, 205
P
Palmer, Dave, 248
Panama invasion, 13, 240, 257-58, 273
parades, role of, 264, 274, 276, 280, 286, 293
paranoid trends, 48
parasympathetic nervous system, 70
paratroopers, 68, 206
Pastora, Eden, 14
patrols behind enemy lines, 60-62
Pavlov, I. P., 252-53, 255
Pavlovian conditioning.
conditioning
peer pressure, 27, 30, 89-90, 150, 224-26
Perrin, Noel, 330
Perry, Ted, 291
personal kills.
phalanx, 146, 153-54
physical danger, pursuit of, 76
physical distance, effect of, 97-137, 187, 188, 340
• close-range killing, 110, 114-37
• edged-weapons range, 120-30
• hand-grenade range, 112-13
• hand-to-hand-combat range, 131—33
• long-range killing, 108-10
