“Only a predator can hunt another predator.”

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman

Grossman was born in Frankfurt, West Germany. His career includes service in the US Army as a Sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division, a platoon leader in the 9th Infantry Division, a general staff officer, a company commander in the 7th (Light) Infantry Division as well as a paratrooper and graduate of Ranger School. He went on to become a professor of psychology at West Point. In February 1998, Grossman retired from the military as a professor of military science at Arkansas State University.

Grossman’s first book, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, is an analysis of the physiological processes involved with killing another human being.