Rex Applegate (1914–1998)

Contents

Chapter I Introduction to unarmed combat
Chapter II Offensive unarmed combat
Chapter III Defensive unarmed combat
Chapter IV Knife attack and defense
Chapter V Combat use of the hand gun
Chapter VI Combat firing with shoulder weapons
Chapter VII Disarming
Chapter VIII Prisioner handling and control
Chapter IX Miscellaneous weapons and techniques
Chapter X Raids and room combat
Chapter XI Elementary fieldcraft
Chapter XII Training techniques and combat ranges
Index… (more)

A properly trained knife fighter armed with a double-edged knife should prevail in any close-quarter encounter against an individual armed with most weapons-except a firearm. And even then, given the element of surprise, an opponent armed with a handgun is still vulnerable to attacks against a trained knife fighter.

Col. Rex Applegate, universally recognized as one of the foremost authorities on close combat with or without weaopns, wrote Combat Use of the Double-Edged Fighting Knife to instill in readers the skills and confidence necessary for contemporary close-quarter knife fighting. Working with W.E. Fairbairn in 1942, Colonel Applegate helped to develop silent-killing instruction for America's first behind-the-lines OSS agents. The two also were responsible for coming up with the Applegate-Fairbairn Fighting Knife, generally regarded as one of the best double-edged combat blades in the world.

Now you, took, can receive the same personalized cose-quarter knife-fighting instruction that has benefited select U.S. armed forces and federal investigative and intelligence personnel.

Contents

Introduction
Scope and orientation
The knife blade and handle
Correct grip
Stance
Knife manipulations
Tactics
Vulnerable points
Utility knives-knife throwing
Knife maintenance
Practice
Knife defense
Sheath
History of the Applegate-Fairbairn knife
Sources for knves, books, and videos… (more)

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OWS, BLM, Antifa, etc. may not be trained or financed by the KGB any more. But they are trained and led and financed by the people who were."… (more)