How Nation-States Train their Soldiers to Kill People

Many thanks to Dan Hodge for emailing me this excellent, albeit old, documentary on the dehumanization of "basic training." Basic training is the process by which "our" rotten Uncle Sam prepares teenage boys to kill strangers without hesitation or compunction. He often succeds at the former, but always fails at the  latter, as the clearly haunted USMC Drill Instructors reveal through their comments in the film.

The documentary is longish for YouTube standards, but I promise that those with authentic pro-peace sympathies will be pulled in if they give the first 2 or 3 minutes a chance. It is narrated by a Vietnam-era Veteran of the US Navy:

Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.