We receive constant enquiries regarding CQC tactics and skills and many other subjects relating to military CQC. The reality is while the masses may have knowledge about martial arts and combat sports very few have factual knowledge and less have had hands on experience in military CQC. Many enquiries are in regards to the use of submission skills in military CQC, especially in regards to safety and such skills in relation to effectiveness.
Military CQC is a military science not an exact science and is a living practice based on staying ahead of enemy threats. It is heavily influenced by primary, secondary and improvised weapons usage first and foremost to take an enemy out. Unarmed combat skills are adopted because they are the dirtiest means of threat neutralisation and can be deadly.
In the most brutal of combat sports you are not allowed to drive your thumb through the eyeball and eye socket, seize finger joints and snap them to escape a hold, grab , squeeze and pull the scrotum and many more such practices that prey on soft bodily target. There is a good reason why these practices are not permitted in combat sports as they would cause serious injury or death and are terminal practices.
In military CQC it is terminal practices that matter most. There are no rules referee’s or out options in a life or death actions on close quarters combat battle field encounter. Battledress webbing and body armour as well as humping packs and carrying weapons change things by considerable. Terrain considerations, fatigue, injuries and wounds are all important factors of consideration in regards to military CQC primary tradecraft practices.
You must always remember that a committed armed combatant trained in dirty and deadly primary battle field CQC practices is capable of killing you in the time it takes to a employ submission skill or even after employing it even when injured as a result of a submission, skill, such as an arm bar.
I have interviewed CQC trained combatants that have received severe injuries including being severely wounded but have through training intestinal fortitude and inner resolve and knowledge of how to use terminal practices to neutralise ones enemy, have done just that.
Highly trained committed combat and is could kill you when injured wounded or in their final death gasp given the opportunity and capabilities. Fighting prowess means nothing when fatal threat neutralisation is your enemies modus operandi to take you out. Give a highly trained combatant the time and opportunity and you may well pay the ultimate price.
Every situation must be assessed to determine the best means of threat neutralisation decided on by the combatant at real time under threat conditions including during an actions on encounter.
General primary military tradecraft practices for CQC are there to reduce risk to the lowest level possible and increase threat neutralisation capability by providing the best chances of threat neutralisation.
Just because an enemy appears to be unarmed does not mean to say that they are. So to employ a skill to strangle choke hyperextend extremities or lock and lever joints could be fatal if you did not identify a concealed weapon or they have access to an improvised weapon including seizing your own weapon and using it against you.
It would be foolish and fatal to use submission skills in a kill or get killed battlefield actions on encounter against a formidable armed deadly and dirty foe.
Seasoned combatants understand the risks dangers and negative realities of underestimating the enemy or wasting time and effort when you can dispose of the threat much quicker and safer by a single armed dirty and deadly battle proven military CQC primary practice.
Every second you are subject to actions on CQC increases the risk and danger. Combine this with the fact that you should presume highly trained military combatants like those trained in European military CQC will be well versed in the prevention and counter of submission skills by means of deadly armed options as well as dirty and deadly unarmed enemy disposal options.
Using an edged weapon or improvised weapon to attack enemy extremities being utilised in the execution of submission techniques or using the weapon to attack life-support vitals is a primary military CQC tradecraft practice to put an end to such threats. Utilising environmental terrain available weapons such as rocks against vulnerable bodily targets will certainly make the application of submissions risky.
It is quite simple that in such potential loss of life or limb actions on encounters using submission skills could be the biggest mistake you ever make against a trained combatant that opts for take out rather than take on methods of close quarters combat.
Use your brains to outsmart your foe don’t get them bashed in through inferior high-risk practices not right for the role of military close quarters combat. Don’t let ego stupidity or blind loyalty prevent you from arming yourself with the best of battle proven tactics and skills when it comes to the need for military self-defence or military close quarters combat.
