| Description |
292 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1.Battle Morale -- 2.Who Fights? -- 3.Fear and Firepower -- 4.Bullets and Common Sense -- 5.Aversion to Killing -- 6.But Killing Anyway -- 7.Freezing, Fleeing and Fighting -- 8.Fussing -- 9.Cohesion -- 10.Compulsion -- 11.Proximity -- 12.Weapon-Pull -- 13.Weapon-Push -- 14.Seeing Straight -- 15.Thinking Straight -- 16.Fighting Fast -- 17.Fighting Flanks -- 18.Weighbridge -- 19.Confused and Obvious -- 20.New Wars, Old Lessons. |
| Summary |
"In Brains & Bullets, military psychologist Leo Murray argues that, given the right conditions, everybody fights. Change those conditions, however, and almost everybody will stop fighting. If we really want to win wars, the question we ought to be asking is: 'How do we make the enemy stop fighting?' Interweaving intense first-hand accounts of combat with the hard science of tactical psychology, this extensively researched study offers a fascinating insight into what war does to the human mind. Most crucially, it also suggests a new way to approach military conflict - one which comes too late to change the outcome of the war in Afghanistan, but which may well have a profound effect on the future of modern warfare"--Cover. |
| Subject |
War -- Psychological aspects.
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War -- Psychological aspects. |
| ISBN |
9781849545167 |
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1849545162 |
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