Robert H Sabet

In 1942, before their mobilization to Guadalcanal, Major Carl Heinmiller of the 37th Infantry division (the Buckeye division) was stationed in Fiji with the South Pacific Scouts, also known as the Fiji Commandos. Heinmiller learned a great deal from the Scouts while helping with their training, and that experience and the knowledge he gained from them during the war stayed with him long after the war had ended. This book discusses Heinmiller's experiences and the Commando "type" training the Scouts and Heinmiller received.

Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr. was an eccentric millionaire and an amateur boxer, he was also a pioneer of combatives in the United States of America. He began his career with the Marine Corps as an instructor of bayonet tactics during World War I. Biddle was also one of the biggest promoters of W.E. Fairbairn's Defendu during the interwar period and taught Marines and G-men hand-to-hand fighting tactics up until the end of World War II. This book presents an overview of the man's story and his system.

In 1923 a former instructor in hand-to-hand fighting for the United States Marine Corps, Lieutenant K.E. Shephard wrote a series of articles on Self-Defense for The Long Beach Telegram. During that same year the boxer Jack Dempsey also wrote a series of articles on self-defense titled How to Repel a Thug. The articles are presented in this book along with commentary provided by a group of present-day subject matter experts, who discuss the pros and cons of the various techniques presented within.

The Military Police School course presented in this book, which is from 1950, was titled Personal Encounters. The unarmed combat techniques from the course allowed MPs to do their jobs with the knowledge and confidence that if they were ever in a situation in which they had to rely on the techniques that the techniques would not let them down.

An exploration of the evolution of Combatives in the United States of America from the Second World War up until present day, following the career of judoka and hand-to-hand combat instructor Anthony R. Flores. This book includes unarmed combat courses taught at West Point, and Fort Oglethorpe, as well as courses taught by Anthony Flores.

Grey Otter, a half Cherokee man also known as Skeeter Vaughan, the legendary knife and tomahawk thrower; devised a tomahawk fighting system during World War Two. This book provides an overview of his hawk system as well as discusses his background. It also offers a look at several other Warriors, some who also fought against the Axis powers.

Like the boxer Jack Dempsey, Ed Don George, the wrestler, was also called upon to be a hand-to-hand combat instructor during the 2nd World War. In Ed Don George's case it was for the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School at the University of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Through a series of articles which he wrote on the subject as well as accompanying photographs, this book attempts to reintroduce the man and his patriotic efforts to assist in the preparation of the young cadets of the Navy Pre-Flight school for that conflict.

Allan Corstorphin Smith was one of the many unsung Combatives pioneers who passed on what he knew. He stripped down the Jiu-Jitsu he had learned at the Kodokan and taught something in World War One which was very similar to what the other Combatives pioneers taught later on. In World War Two he called his system Battle Fighting. He gave his students the tools to feel safer and more secure about themselves in their lives whomever they were, whether they were a Student, a Boy Scout, a Policeman, or a Soldier.