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All right guys today we've got a very special guest on the podcast. His name is

Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman. So a lot of you guys know who that is, but if you

don't know who that is, he is a retired lieutenant colonel from the United States Army.

He is an author and a renowned speaker in his main focus is actually on the psychology of killing.

Yes, of killing, right? So he's written a lot of seminal books in this area. So the two that you might be familiar with are on killing, which was released in 1995 and on combat, which was released in 2004.

And so those really are seminal books

in the understanding of the mental impact of killing.

I'll even read the subtitles of those books,

on killing the psychological cost

of learning to kill in war and society and then on

combat the psychology and physiology of deadly conflict in war and in peace so for a

lot of you guys you may have heard of the concept of the sheep dog right so on

combat is the book where that was introduced that's where we get the idea of the wolf

the sheep and the sheep dog but he's also got a new book out that is coming out this

month and for those of you listening on time

it has just been released and that is called on spiritual combat 30 missions for

victorious warfare so I'll just read a very short description of the book for you so you can

get an idea of it.

On spiritual combat is the spiritual warfare guide for military members, law enforcement officers,

first responders, and all sheepdogs.

It prepares their hearts and minds for battle, teaching them to identify,

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