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If you don't voluntarily close the distance due to a preconceived notion and fight strategy like the one dictated in the FM you'll have distance on your side, that's my whole point. They took a strategy designed for the ring and put it on the battlefield. I found keeping a little distance and using a short stick worked very well for controlling people without having to kill them or get close enough to allow them to kill me. If you shoot everyone who resist or who pulls a knife you'll never get to question anyone, as for calling in arty or air on someone close enough to use a knife on you, well I don't think that really needs a comment now does it? Using a short stick allows you to humanely disarm or stun people instead of shooting them in front of their wife and kids 45 seconds after their front door was kicked in and is a FAR better option than trying to use bjj to subdue them. Many times just having money in the house was reason enough to detain the head of the family for questioning, shooting a family member who gets excited during this time frame is not going to help your cause. Thats where the problem is, most people admit the BJJ component was added to help in detaining and controlling people, yet you're expected to use it on people who are usually armed and have friends and family present. On a side note, imagine the position the BJJ mentality puts a soldier in if we happen to have a problem with a country known for human wave attacks like say, Iran or China, rolling around on the ground waiting to see whose friends show up with a gun first (per the manual) suddenly seems pretty fucking stupid doesn't it?

Somehow the Army went from "close with and destroy the enemy." to "close with and make him tap out."