Fight Like a Marine - Close Combat Fighting (Official U.S. Marine Handbook)
Marine Corps Combatives, Close-Quarters Techniques, and Tactical ReadinessBy U.S. Department of Defense
Length3h 36m
About this audiobook
*Fight Like a Marine—Close Combat Fighting* is a practical instructional manual devoted to the principles and techniques of hand-to-hand combat as taught within the U.S. Marine Corps. Its coverage typically emphasizes fighting mindset, combat conditioning, striking, blocking, grappling, escapes, takedowns, and the use of improvised or field-expedient methods, presenting each subject through concise explanations and sequential demonstrations. The prose is notably direct, procedural, and unsentimental: rather than offering martial arts as entertainment or personal philosophy, it treats close combat as a disciplined military skill shaped by urgency, economy of movement, and battlefield necessity. In literary and documentary terms, the volume belongs to the tradition of official service manuals, combining technical exposition with institutional doctrine and visual, action-oriented instruction. The U.S. Department of Defense, represented here through Marine Corps training doctrine, produced this work within a larger culture of standardized preparation, physical readiness, and operational effectiveness. Its underlying purpose is not individual self-expression but the formation of reliable habits under stress. The handbook reflects the Marine Corps' historic emphasis on aggression, discipline, adaptability, and mission completion, while also preserving the accumulated experience of instructors and combat personnel who translated practical lessons into teachable form. This book is recommended to readers interested in military history, professional training literature, combatives, and the development of modern close-quarter doctrine. It is especially valuable as a primary-source document showing how an armed service codifies bodily skill and psychological readiness. Readers should approach it as historical and instructional material, studying its methods responsibly, within lawful, ethical, and properly supervised contexts.
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Length3 hrs 36 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 14, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo (Annotated)
21-1. DEFINITION OF COMBATIVES
31-2. PURPOSES OF COMBATIVES TRAINING
41-3. BASIC PRINCIPLES
51-4. SAFETY
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6CHAPTER 2 TRAINING
7Section I. TRAIN-THE-TRAINER
82-1. RESPONSIBILITIES OF TRAINERS
92-2. SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
10Section II. UNIT TRAINING
112-3. BASIC OR ONE-STATION UNIT TRAINING
122-4. UNIT SUSTAINMENT TRAINING PROGRAM
13Section III. TRAINING AREAS
142-5. TRAINING FORMATIONS
152-6. MATTED ROOM
162-7. PIT CONSTRUCTION
172-8. BAYONET ASSAULT COURSE
18Section IV. TEACHING TECHNIQUES
192-9. WARM-UPS AND STRETCHES
202-10. CRAWL, WALK, AND RUN
212-11. DEMONSTRATIONS
222-12. EXECUTION BY THE NUMBERS
232-13. EXECUTION AT COMBAT SPEED
242-14. DRILLS
252-15. TRAINING PADS AND OTHER PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT
26CHAPTER 3 BASIC GROUND-FIGHTING TECHNIQUES
27Section I. DOMINANT BODY POSITION
283-1. BACK MOUNT
293-2. FRONT MOUNT
303-3. GUARD
313-4. SIDE CONTROL
32Section II. BASIC TECHNIQUES
333-5. BODY POSITIONING MOVES
343-6. FINISHING MOVES
353-7. DRILLS
363-8. DEFENSE AGAINST HEADLOCKS
37CHAPTER 4 ADVANCED GROUND-FIGHTING TECHNIQUES
38Section I. ADVANCED ATTACKS
394-1. ADVANCED BODY POSITIONS
404-2. PASS THE GUARD
414-3. ATTACKS FROM THE MOUNT
424-4. ATTACKS FROM THE BACK MOUNT
434-5. ATTACKS FROM THE GUARD
444-6. KNEE MOUNT
454-7. LEG ATTACKS
46Section II. STRIKES
474-8. PASS THE GUARD WITH STRIKES
484-9. STRIKING FROM SIDE CONTROL
494-10. DEFENDING AGAINST STRIKES IN THE GUARD
50CHAPTER 5 TAKEDOWNS AND THROWS
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