Sheepdog Tip of the Day, During Combat tip 9
Brigadier General S.L.A. Marshall, Men Against Fire: " The army ... must reckon with the fact that he comes from a civilization in which aggression, connected with the taking of life, is prohibited and unacceptable. The teaching and ideals of that civilization are against killing, against taking advantage. The fear of aggression has been expressed to him so strongly and absorbed by him so deeply and pervadingly--practically with his mother's milk--that it is part of the normal man's emotional make up. This is his greatest handicap when he enters combat. It stays his trigger-finger even though he is hardly conscious that it is a restraint upon him."
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Combat
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