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Originally Posted by einherjar
You may be interested in the author Dave Grossman. Although, I should warn you, his books are a little dense. I started reading On Killing and ended up stuck thigh deep in bog. I tried to back track and box around it; I started reading "On Combat" and ended up in worse shape than I was before!
At the back of On Combat though, Grossman makes reference to a list of virtues distilled from Erasmus' work, Enchiridion Militis Christiani: A Guide for the Righteous Protector.
I really enjoyed the list of virtues. I would post them here but, that would probably constitute a hijacking. I do a search to see if some has already posted the list of virtues, if not I find an appropriate place to put it.
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I find LTC Grossman's books pedantic and simultaneously overly-generalized.
If you are having trouble wading through his little books, you may want to consider whether SF is for you.
TR
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