Lt. Col. Dave Grossman is Professor of Military Science at Arkansas State University. His career includes service in the US Army as a sergeant in the US 82nd Airborne Division, a platoon leader in the 9th (High Tech Test Bed) Division, a general staff officer, a company commander in the 7th (Light) Infantry Division as well as a parachute infantryman and a US Army Ranger and teaching psychology at West Point.

During heights of video game controversy, Dave Grossman has been interviewed on the content of his book, and has repeatedly used the term "murder simulator" to describe first-person shooter games. He argues that video game publishers unethically train children in the use of weapons and, more importantly, harden them emotionally to the task of murder by simulating the killing of hundreds or thousands of opponents in a single typical video game.

Since his retirement from the Army, Dave Grossman has founded the Killology Research Group and continues to educate law enforcement officers and soldiers in the techniques he has studied for improving outcomes in lethal encounters. He also speaks at civilian events on ways to reduce violence in society and deal with the aftermath of violent events such as school shootings.

Bibliography

Non-fiction

• On Killing (1995) (ISBN 0316330116), an analysis of the psychology of killing both in the military and in civilian society, which he calls killology.
• A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence (1999) (ISBN 0609606131)
• The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace (2004) (ISBN 0964920514), "a ground-breaking examination of what it takes to perform, cope and survive in the toxicity of deadly combat as a soldier in a foreign land and a police officer in the mean streets of urban America.".

Fiction

• The War With Earth (2003) (ISBN 0743498771) (with Leo Frankowski) Book two of the series starting with A Boy and his Tank. //www.baen.com/chapters/W200307/0743436156.htm?blurb Sample Chapters
• The Two-Space War (2004) (ISBN 1416509283) (with Leo Frankowski) New series. //www.baen.com/chapters/W200402/0743471881.htm?blurb Sample Chapters
• Kren of the Mitchegai (2005) (ISBN 141650902X) (with Leo Frankowski) Book three of the series starting with A Boy and his Tank. //www.baen.com/chapters/W200403/0743471822.htm?blurb Sample Chapters

External links

• Killology.com
• Law enforcement and medical criticism of Grossman
• SLA Marshall's faking of Grossman's underlying research
• Grossman and Marshall
• Grossman's attempt to defend himself and possible mis-use of the Korean War

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