Rangers start to train in hand-to-hand combat in their earliest selection course and continue through their whole careers in ...

Combatives training is a valuable tool for U.S. Army commanders because it improves unit cohesion and lethality. I believe hand-to-hand combat will also prove consequential in future armed conflict.

Trung Lap Ranger Unit Training Center, South Vietnam, February, 1962: U.S. Army advisers 1st Lt. Edmond Fricki (standing) and 1st Lt. Major Bell demonstrate hand-to-hand combat before a group of ...