From rvm878v@tninet.se Mon Dec 10 05:30:02 2001 Received: from mailscan3.cac.washington.edu (mailscan3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with SMTP id fBADU0n165088 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 05:30:00 -0800 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan3.cac.washington.edu ; Mon Dec 10 05:29:56 2001 -0800 Received: from smtp.tninet.se (vir.tninet.se [195.100.94.108]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW01.12) with ESMTP id fBADTtNR002257 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 05:29:55 -0800 Received: from [195.163.225.33] (sdu33-225.ppp.algonet.se [195.163.225.33]) by vir.tninet.se (BLUETAIL Mail Robustifier 2.2.2) with ESMTP id 297459.990993.1007vir-s1 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:29:53 +0100 Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:25:45 +0100 Subject: Re: Trauma of war From: Gunnel Ekroth To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.J.20011210213503.009c0180@mbox.media.nagoya-u.ac.jp> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable 2001-12-10 13.52, skrev Abe Shin p=E5 a010103m@mbox.media.nagoya-u.ac.jp f=F6ljande: > Hello list, >=20 > Today I read Dave Grossman's On Killing: the Psychological Cost of Learni= ng > to Kill in War and Society. I surprise how many Soldiers cannot or resis= t > shoot their enemy. Until World War 2, only 15-20 percent of soldiers do > shoot. And I surprise how deep trauma soldiers have in killing enemy. >=20 > Turning to ancient world, is there such a sabotage to kill enemy known in > ancient world? And is there such traumas in killing enemy? >=20 I can recommend Lawrence A. Tritle, From Melos to my Lai. War and survival, 2000 and Jonathan Shay, Achilles in Vietnam: combat trauma and the undoing of the character, 1994. Both of these deal with the effects of war on humans, both modern and ancient. Gunnel Ekroth .