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    COMBATIVES COROLLARIES

    Mar 16, 2021 4 minutes
    BY KELLY McCANN

    Just as any true martial artist should read Musashi’s Book of Five Rings, any combatives practitioner should read the U.S. Marine Corps Field Manual 1 Warfighting.

    FM1 was written in the late 1980s at the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Warfighting Center in Quantico, Virginia, while I was assigned there to the Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict office as the counterterrorism/counternarcotics officer. A young captain named John Sullivan was a contemporary of mine and a project officer on the development of the manual. The book was written with direct input from the commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. A.M.

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