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Hi all
My son is writing an A Level EPQ study on Martial art relevance to today's modern warfare.
If you study martial arts and/or have military service can you please fill out the following survey (should take less than 5 mins)
https://forms.gle/vPfiaaegz4cL2sff8
Can you please forward to any relevant friends/colleagues.
Thank you!
Paul
Done.
I have a martial arts background but no military and the survey seems weighted towards military combat. I do it for fitness and the mental/physical challenge.
I also like beating the crap out a punch pad.
Thanks
It is weighted towards military combat and seeks to extend the work reported on in this study, https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a612103.pdf, which looks at hand-to-hand combat in US military engagements 2004-2008
I can't be of any help, but I have always suspected that running out into an open field wearing a brightly coloured costume and armed with a pointy stick or sword to fight an enemy armed with a spaceship with laser cannons is a tactical mistake that should have been covered early on in combat training. If you could confirm that, I would appreciate it.
Also, time travel. If you have time travel ability and your enemy manages to surprise you, surely you are so incompetent that you deserve to lose.
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Done.
No time travel was involved.
Thank you!
Let him read this wiki article then get the book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Five_Rings
Go Rin No Sho - The Book Of Five Rings, written by Miyamoto Musashi, one of the greatest swordsmen who ever lived, considered to be a sword-saint. It deals with strategy, philosophy, and it’s been a source of inspiration for both military and business strategy for generations.
There’s another book that might be of interest, The Art Of War, by Sun Tzu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War
I'm sure he's aware of this incident, though it's more cage fighting than martial arts :-
https://www.maxim.com/.amp/news/british-special-forces-destroy-isis-hand-to-hand-2017-7
Technically not hand-to-hand. The SAS guys had rocks and clubs, the ISIS guys had guns.
The Art Of War by Sun Tzu is primary reading for unimaginative businessmen wanting to drown themselves in wow-wee tropes at the start of a conference presentation.
The Art Of War by Sun Tzu is primary reading for unimaginative businessmen wanting to drown themselves in wow-wee tropes at the start of a conference presentation.
While I’m sure that’s true, it never hurts to read different perspectives on a subject, if only to show how ineffective it is in a modern context.