
Navy SEALs: A Brief History
From underwater demolition teams in the Pacific to the modern special operations community, the SEAL lineage explains why their hand-to-hand training looks so different from the rest of the military.
Military Combat Education

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How close-quarters fighting evolved from bayonet drill and trench raids into the combatives programs taught on modern bases.
Army Fighting Secrets — editorial resource on military combat training, martial arts and self-defense.

From underwater demolition teams in the Pacific to the modern special operations community, the SEAL lineage explains why their hand-to-hand training looks so different from the rest of the military.

Defendu, combat judo and the wartime manuals that turned street fighting into a teachable system. A short history of how the modern curriculum was written.

Bayonet training is obsolete as a combat skill and still useful as a teaching tool. The drill survived because it builds aggression and coordination at the same time.