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There is a close quarter shooting technique that is taught with a pistol among Law Enforcement and popular Gun/Tactics school nationwide. In this article a couple of different experts demonstrates their method conveying the difference in training on the range versus training with a live person that reacts in a lively manner. In other words, someone that resists when you're trying to go for your pistol. The main objective is to draw your pistol, but in real life at that close range you have to deal with the aggressor thats bent on hurting you. Here are a couple of views...

Close Quarters Carbines, Square Ranges, CQB, Weapons Manipulation and Tactics   Max Velocity wrote an interesting post called The Great Tactical Training Con. I agree with him in some regards but disagree in others. This stumbles into something I have been thinking about for awhile. Over the past few years or maybe the last decade the role of the rifle in close quarters fighting has changed.  What used to be considered almost solely shotgun territory has become dominated by AR's, AK's, etc all. These rifles hold 30 rounds and reload themselves which is pretty handy. Not taking anything away from...

Israel Defense Forces have been working to perfect their urban warfare tactics, in an effort to eliminate militant cells in the disputed zones of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The goal is to gradually shift from a defensive to an offensive posture, said Col. Boaz Cohen, a military envoy to the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. On the offensive, the Isreali military hunts down potential suicide bombers and their handlers before they launch their operations, said Cohen. “We realized that we cannot deal with the reality of suicide bombers,” he said. “Through the years, we realized that there...

Ground Forces TrainingThe director gave his staff a sequence of commands: "Console one: We have tanks coming down the road. Record with camera nine. Console two: Swing the camera all the way to the left and cover the town's main entrance. Pick up the tank on the right with camera three. Console one: Pan camera 10 to the left toward the soccer field and capture the dismounted squad. That's good. Now pan down." What appears to be a movie director filming a rapidly evolving battle for a soon-to-be-released combat action movie is actually the control station editor at a US...