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Killing the enemy is not always an option, and the better trained the soldiers are to deal with those situations, the better off they will be to stay alive.
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This makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever. If killing the enemy is not an option (with the obvious exception of prisoner snatches, etc.), then we aren't in combat. We must be in some kind of policing situation. Or a sporting event.
And in what scenario is killing the enemy not an option for us, but putting him in an armbar will keep us alive? If killing me is an option for him, killing him is the only option for me.
Again, I have no problem with this as a sport, but it ain't combatives. At least not by the definition I was taught.
And if you are forced to discuss other options outside of the MAC, then I don't think the program is new, innovative or the direction in which we need to be going. I think it is a sport.
Do you think Fairbairn had to "discuss" other options outside of his program?