Some Vietnam infantry troops carried tomahawks. Saw that a guy was attempting to market an updated version to the military recently. Brutal weapon.
Relax, historians. This is another John Clement article. He’s a well known “character” in hoplogical circles. Nobody of serious study gives him much regard. He got his start when the early public use of the internet (mid 90s) resulted in a sudden proliferation (by people like William Wilson and Patri Pugliese) of old texts which, while known among scholars, were just being discovered by Highlander fandom. He got out in front of his particular crowd and declared himself the leader of movement of which he was not even a member. He proclaimed himself to be a true and proper swordsman and weaponsmaster and THEN cracked the books. Being studied in neither the language nor histories of the nations from his source material comes, he is as qualified to interpret a Talhoffer book as Joseph Smith was to interpret hieroglyphs — and they are mostly illustrations (Talhoffer, that is).