Kill Or Get Killed
by Rex Applegate
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Author: Rex ApplegateEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1976-10-01
ISBN: 1581605587
Number of pages: 421
Publisher: Paladin Press
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Book Review: not exactly self defense, unless you're in a battle zone or a spy
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was designed as an encyclopedic examination of the best ways to handle yourself on the battlefield, or behind enemy lines, or as a cop in a tough spot.
It is emphatically NOT for a high school kid who is being bullied, unless that kid wants to be bullied at Folsom instead of in high school.
It is the result of a lot of study, including study with Fairbairn (get all of his books if this book speaks to you), and it shows it.
While this is an overview and exposition of techniques of offensive self defense and the use of knives and guns and crowd control (including tear gas and handcuffs), it is an overview that was at the cutting edge when it was written during and after World War II. Obviously, there are developments (new handguns and handcuffs) and new guidelines for use of force. And by the same token, these are techniques that worked and work, although if you use a chin jab or neckbreaker or ear slap during a fistfight in a bar, you will need to hire a good lawyer and you may well go to jail, depending on whether a group of folks believed what you did was justifiable. And rules differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
The techniques in this book are effective and useful in the most severe situations. They are certainly not the only sorts of techniques that work in fights, nor all the fighting techniques that work in fights. They are specifically designed for battlefield use.
The use of "pre-emptive" techniques (hitting first) is strongly recommended in this book, because they work.
Certain well-thought-out choices show up in this book. There is virtually no emphasis on groundfighting of any kind, based on the thought that while you grappled with your opponent, his compatriots would be kicking you in the head. And Applegate believed that the best groundfighting techniques for you involved your boots applied to his prone body.
Do not give this book to children or anybody with an anger control problem. Do not think that this book is for fun. It's not.
Do consider the study of this book if you're going into a war zone. The insight it provides for that sort of environment seems priceless.
But if you try these attack-defense techniques at the local bar, brush up on your letter-writing skills, because the chances are you'll be doing time and writing to your family instead of seeing them. And if you avoid the police, you'll still have to deal with the civil suit.
But this is a professional product for professionals who deal with high levels of violence. And my guess is that if you need these techniques, you really need them a lot.
This is the sort of thing that people are talking about when they talk about World War II combatives.
Summary of Kill Or Get Killed
This is the best and longest-selling book on close combat in history. Reprinted and in current use by the U.S. Marine Corps as an official training manual, it details methods of self-defense, offensive close combat, combat shooting and crowd-control techniques in riot situations. Colonel Rex Applegate is widely regarded as the father of modern close combat and combat shooting, and this book is considered the standard by which all other books on the subject are judged.Military Science Books
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