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Many of the quotes within this book are from personal interviews with the author. As mentioned in the acknowledgements, another major source for this book has been
Soldier of Fortune
magazine. In the environment of condemnation and accusation that existed immediately after the Vietnam War,
SOF
was the only national forum in which Vietnam veterans could attain some degree of closure by writing of their experiences in a sympathetic and nonjudgmental environment.

I would ask those who would prejudge this material as "mindless machismo"

to observe the true nature of these narratives. Many of these veterans tell of instances in which they did not kill the enemy even when they had every reason and justification to do so; and many tell of the shock and trauma associated with having killed, and the guilt and anguish which followed their experiences.

I want to thank Colonel (retired) Alex McColl, at
Soldier of Fortune,
for his support and assistance in using these quotes (a detailed listing of which can be found in the bibliography) and I would like to thank all of the authors of these and every other work quoted in this book, and all of those whom I have had the priviledge to interview as a part of this study. This book — indeed this entirly new field of study, which I have termed killology — would not be possible were it not for those who have gone before us, the veterans and authors on whose shoulders this study stands.

Index

acceptance, of killing.
See
rationalization and Arab-Israeli War, 43

acceptance, of killing

archetypes, behavioral, 184, 340-41

accountability.
See
comrades,

Arendt, Hannah, 207

accountability to

Army, U.S., 34, 35, 68, 82, 189, 253, 255.

acute combat reaction, 36