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WE made the acquaintance of spree killers not so long ago; perhaps the first was Charles Starkweather, who went on a lethal joyride with his underage girlfriend in 1958. Seung-Hui Cho, the murderer of 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech, is only the latest, and most lethal.

But spree killers did not invent sadistic homicide. Many of the pirates and robbers of the past--Edward Teach (Blackbeard), the James gang, Pretty Boy Floyd--went far beyond greed for gain in their mayhem. The same goes for many a soldier, especially in irregular wars: Indian wars, the American Revolution in the South, the margins of the Civil War. Armies have an interest in discipline, ...

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