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Modern Army Combatives: Battle-Proven Techniques and Training Methods
In battlefield situations where soldiers are forced to fight enemies in close contact, superior hand-to-hand combat skills can mean the difference not only between victory and defeat, but also between life and death. This authoritative manual addresses close-combat fundamentals from their history to their current role in modern warfare, and illustrates basic techniques and training methods with detailed photo sequences. The training program discussed in this book—a program specifically developed for and used by the United States Army—draws from many divergent branches of the martial arts and sports worlds from wrestling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to traditional martial arts and Ultimate Fighting. Additionally, it features anecdotes from troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan who used some of these hand-to-hand techniques in combat as well as lessons learned from the battlefield.
- GenresMartial Arts
200 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2012
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April 11, 2022
On my first reading I uncharitably skipped to the techniques and found that not all of them were easily transferable to unarmed civilian h2h combat. Obviously not universally true, but you get the idea.
On the reread, I actually read the philosophy behind the decisions they made, especially the competition stuff. This guy really understands fighting, he seems to not only express the techniques and their principles, like leverage or follow up moves, but also the broad philosophies of the arts themselves.
Even to the point where he has evidence for what works with his trainees in the field, and so he’s able to find limitations in the arts which you may not hear from the great thinkers from individual disciplines.
Military martial arts systems (usually rightly) get a lot of flak, simply because most Krav guys can’t fight. But I think some of the solutions presented here, the careful balance between competition and practicality - something seldom achieved in all your favorite BJJ gyms - could change something like Krav into a system which everyone respects.
The whole bit about the cultivation of a culture of training is huge!
On the reread, I actually read the philosophy behind the decisions they made, especially the competition stuff. This guy really understands fighting, he seems to not only express the techniques and their principles, like leverage or follow up moves, but also the broad philosophies of the arts themselves.
Even to the point where he has evidence for what works with his trainees in the field, and so he’s able to find limitations in the arts which you may not hear from the great thinkers from individual disciplines.
Military martial arts systems (usually rightly) get a lot of flak, simply because most Krav guys can’t fight. But I think some of the solutions presented here, the careful balance between competition and practicality - something seldom achieved in all your favorite BJJ gyms - could change something like Krav into a system which everyone respects.
The whole bit about the cultivation of a culture of training is huge!
November 26, 2024
A genuinely interesting primer on combatives.
As a civilian I thought this was a really interesting look inside combat. Even though I am not a fighter, I learned more than I expected about the techniques our armed forces use. In theory only, of course.
As a civilian I thought this was a really interesting look inside combat. Even though I am not a fighter, I learned more than I expected about the techniques our armed forces use. In theory only, of course.
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