I have never at an intelligence process ever understood why the combat knife became the weapon of choice in close combat warfare as throughout history, it has never been carried.
The short Roman sword was a close to anything of a knife, and the bayonet was attached to a spear shaft called a rifle to gain leverage, so this knife thing in carrying them as a primary weapon is really incorrect.
The modern warfare bundle is never discussed as urban combat is something those involved in do not make a point of revealing their secrets for defense. In a Lame Cherry matter anti matter exclusive though, I will devulge for the first time my combat training tools.
In All's Quiet on the Western Front, the Germans schooled their Soldiers in the use of a trench shovel, with the spade sharpened. Given that implement, it would literally with the leverage of an upward thrust take the head off of any opponent.
The Oriental being deprived of swords in being assault weapons which might be used against the dictatorial king, resorted to martial arts while the peasant found hoes and pitch forks implements to equal the marauding sword.
I could write book on this and sell it as some whoremonger might buy it to give me a few crumbs to starve upon............speaking of which for some reason being poor or being a woman, some people jump to conclusions that someone like that might not be someone to not be polite to.
For example, just saying, just say, because I am saying it, say you had like an East German, no make that Prussian woman, who was like Angela Merkel, schooled in the GRU or something like that, and she on assignment in the west, at the fall of things, somehow ended up with relatives in America.
I suppose one of the Eastern Bloc best female warriors might be the type of assassin to keep around as the east might contemplate she has loyalties to them and the west might like having a trained mind with insights to what is taking place around the globe, but none of them end up paying anything, even if ........well never mind to the body count.
Where was I?
Oh yes, the key to all of this is the unconcealed weapon. The combat type is of course non recgonizable to authorities or most thugs, unless of course they are closing and then they begin to assess the implment as a possible danger.
I have always had an affection for the hawk, the American Tomahawk, not the Indian kind, but a close relative in the Norland hand axe which carries the Hudson Bay head on it.
Granted the head of a Hudson is not built in the least for lumberjack work, and only for cruising the wilds in chopping sticks of poplar for beaver trapping, but I do wonder how many Indians were sent to the unhappy hunting grounds when some Voyageur or Metis type put a Hudson onto the skull of some Indian with intent or some Frenchman for that matter.
That is what the war club was, and while spike seem cool, spikes stick in bone and then you have your war club stuck in someones head and for some reason swinging a 150 pound Indian around trying to kill other Indians just does not work.
Yes Mel Gibson in the Patriot had it right. That hawk was a fine tool to have around, but they somehow sort of make state police nervous, even if they do not know what they are.
Do you know that a softball came up with a wonderfully fun implement called an aluminum bat? Yes the child's version is so swing worthy and if one drills a hole in the handle end, puts a nice thong around it to keep on your wrist, that with all that grippy stuff for sweaty players, that it is an amazing thing for defense. Sort of like it was built for it all, as you have the grip and if an attacker does grab it, hanging on is difficult if it has blood on it from.......well something as we are a non violent place here.
Yes that is my grandchild's softball bat officer. Forgot it after the little league game.
Where was I?
Yes the hammer. The claw hammer. No I am not doing a Monty Python skit, but the straight claw hammer with large head is a real implement of defence.
One must be careful of the claws if they somehow get ground to a knife edge, but it is amazing how the same hammer head that when it hits your finger has the same effect on hitting a body or a head like a brass knuckle and it literally makes assailants stop thinking about assailing.
Wonderful things in the rubber grips work on sweat or blood for grips and it is just something you have around with a leather thong attached as you were doing a bit of nailing about the house last week.
While not my first idea of a choice or fun, the screwdriver, straight edge in a nice large handled rubber grip, and again leather thong drilled through and attacked does present some kind of offensive tool in a defensive posture. They are better of course with a metal cap attached as Joan of Arc would say "for thumping", and the tip of course sharpened to a knife edge which must be kept from poking holes in you, but a pair of them for combat stance are effective and they are just tools in my car officer as sometimes I have trouble under the hood.
Tire irons while in a vehicle do respond well, but if one has them on their person, the public seems to notice and most interested in phoning police. It is why one attempts to choose familiar items they have all seen This Old House do all sorts of wonderful things or perhaps Tiny Timmy swinging at the ball game.
In that a high intensity LED is better than a strike when one can blind an opponent momentarily......yes I know that in the old days they threw dirt in the eyes, but light is lust dusty.
So that is probably enough conversation here between myself and my keyboard.
I do though still like my folding camping shovel though, as officer I use it to scrapes those insects that get on my windshield when I am at the lake..
You know being hit with any sized shovel feels like being hit with a shovel. Is one of the wonders of science.
nuff said
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