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Fighting Tactics
(World War 2)
In World War 2, the Japanese Army was not able to stand up against the
their obsolete rifles. Since the war, no one from the west has studied
Japanese Army bayonet fighting, although their rifles have been written
fighting were superior in World War 2 and even today. Any professional
book. By reading it, he will learn why the Japanese Army rifle, with an
affixed bayonet was more than just a rifle. The Japanese Army bayonet
fighting techniques described in Quick Thrust are useful today, but only
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If your bayonet breaks, strike with the stock; if the stock gives way, hit with your
fists; if your fists are hurt, bite with your teeth."
--- Gen. Mikhail Dragomirov
and screamed trounced a Royal Marine team in Shanghai. After that, some noise
was allowed in the heretofore silent Brit close combat practice. Nevertheless,
fighting, based on choreographed knife fighting and fencing katas, imbued each
bayonet fighter with victory skills and the urge for close combat. The simplistic,
rigid current US Army and Marine bayonet drill is useless. It prepares no one to be
As individuals, most Americans found they liked .45 automatics better than
bayonets, and as a result the main use of bayonets by American soldiers during
World War I was the opening of cans and boxes. They did the same in all wars
thereafter.
Yet there were American bayonet fighting experts, as this book will portray,
that could have given the US Army and Marine Corps two things they desperately
American armed forces have been “managed by flabby bureaucrats and politicians
since 1911.
There is a feeling that this love of the bayonet was a unique Japanese trait,
but a look at WWI tactics shows that this is how most of the world's armies
thought at the beginning of the 20th Century. The Japanese had learned their
military tactics from the Germans, who also taught them the love of "hot blood and
cold steel". These tactics had served the Japanese well in the Russo-Japanese War
where Japanese bayonet charges won victory after victory, albeit at a high cost in
lives. This was the way war was fought and was the way most generals thought it
was meant to be fought, not just in Japan, but in all armies. The "decisive battle"
idea was also a common theme in late 19th Century/early 20th Century military
thinking, as also seen in the obsession of WWI generals with a decisive battle or
decisive breakthrough.
In WWI, waves of infantry with fixed bayonets charged across "No Man's
Land" in Europe into heavy machine gun and artillery fire. It took the entire war
for the generals to realize that these tactics no longer worked. The Japanese,
however, never saw this. They had seen only limited action in the war, and then only
against colonial forces. The Japanese had seen the effect of modern weapons on
extent, they may have retreated into the idea that Western armies had failed in
their bayonet charges because they lacked Japan's unique military spirit and, of
course, the protection of the Emperor and the Gods. Whatever, the reason, Japan
did not abandon the "hot blood and cold steel" tactics like other countries did
after WWI.
A Bayonet Fighter is rare because bureaucrat generals have opted for stand
off machines, not close combat. They have made once proud soldiers into part of a
weapons and mass destruction. They try to seduce carnal, bestial Islamic and
communist enemies into loving them by doing their work for them and handing out
goodies. They fix the electricity, build their hootches and mow their lawns. But the
touted push-button warfare is stupid. Total war demands the individual's ability to
meet his enemy face to face, steel to steel, hand-to-hand on a mound of bloody
enemy corpses.
The eye is a good place for a feint. Draw their guard up. It's also a target
that any one who has ever been in a fight knows how to protect and has counter
moves hard wired. The moment your weapon comes higher than your shoulder you
don't have time to get fancy. Seconds are like minutes. The other guy is not going
to bleed out, or go into shock quick enough to save you. Thrusts should go deep into
vital organs. Always go in low; the ribcage is like armor. Under the sternum; up
through the diaphragm; wrench and twist. Stay in close get the job done quick.
Examine a human skull some time pay attention to the brain case the depth
the structure and types of tissue. The temple doesn't have to be penetrated. But
it can be. That of course is not a prime target. Also study the structure of the eye
socket, the angle of the passage way to the forebrain, and the amount of tissue
There was a forensic examination done a few years back on some skeletons
found on the scene of a great battle during the war of the roses. One skull had
deep cuts at the temple. The researchers thought this was a deliberate mutilation.
They were wrong. The cuts corresponded to the wounds made by driving a blade
(probably a spear) under the rim of the helmet and pushing the victim off his
horse. The Anterior carotid artery would have been severed, with death almost
instantaneous. Facial bones are like a shield compared to the rest of the skull. It’s
easier to reach the brain through the roof of the mouth than through the Eye
socket. The pulmonary artery travels to the lymph nodes under the left arm pit.
Bayonet Targets
Quick feint toward the throat Left arm comes up to guard the throat plunge
the bayonet up in under the arm. Twist and withdraw, if it sticks leave it and get
clear. Go deep enough, death or at least unconsciousness is quick. The skull can also
be penetrated at the temple. The anterior and posterior carotid arteries are easy
to cut. The jugular is not as certain as people think; nor as quick. Stop the flow of
blood on the way to the brain, not the vein going away from the brain. In the groin
was in World War II. The awkwardness of the American bayonet movements were
so ridiculous that any street fighter or martial artist could only laugh. The US
Army and marines had invented a way for its soldiery to always be off balance in
close bayonet combat. Training commanders would yell, "What’s the spirit of the
The US Army and Marines did not realize that they could not simply declare
"offensive spirit" to have been taught to young soldiers simply because they had
Vietnam in 1965-66, fought so well in close combat against the North Vietnamese
Army. It is certain that they ignored their “bayonet training.” After the Vietnam
parody of bayonet fighting. Anything that makes soldiers look stupid should be
discontinued!
And for a brief moment during the apprehensive wait while the enemy closed to
engagement range, it occupied and steadied the voices and hands of officer,
sergeant and soldier. There was comfort in the familiarity of the drill. Anyway,
battle.
from the act of fixing bayonets. In the sight of each soldier the forming of the
long rows of polished steel bayonets served to give the battalion’s frontage a more
The infantry square or skirmish line became one row of unbroken bristling spines,
offering death on every approach. To the soldier it was the danger of impalement
that deterred cavalry, rather than the simple appearance to the horse of a mass
The act of fixing bayonets became, increasingly over time, the physical
By 1982, the US Army Infantry journal was discussing the return of the
bayonet following a ten-year absence from training calendars. While promoting the
close combat, the bayonet drill being contemplated employed that the same four
abbreviated mutant of 1918 bayonet fighting was being taught in Fort Benning in
America.
bureaucratic leftist “elite.” Being leftists, they are obsessed with symbolism,
especially homoerotic symbolism. So when they look at bayonet fighting, they see
penises intertwined and the poor soldiers who get some sense of restorative élan
from bayonets are considered “untermensch” with bayonet fetishes. They also
despise masculinity and seek to transform it into the more familiar homosexual
repression that drives the leftist every behavior. For example, the leftist’s hunger
masculine fetish.
“The bayonet was widely fetishized in the British Army in the First World War
era, both ‘from above’ and ‘from below’. A vibrant, rich and quickly transmitted
culture grew around this, which had real effects on the battlefields of the war.
expressed itself as an unfortunate desire to close with and destroy the enemy.”
military that they have, since 1939, failed to understand the psychological
immediate increase in the fighting spirit of even burned out infantry who fixed
their bayonets. The infantry soldier with fixed bayonet is a stock figure in
historical literature and art. A casual observer might think that the weapon was
never carried in its scabbard on active duty. Its reputed use, however, nearly
The bayonet charge at the point of victory, the "last stand," and the forlorn
hope were all prominent examples of bayonet work. Intense emotion, either the
each of these situations. They are not the reasoned tactics of disciplined troops
warrior’s way.
spirit. This was not because the weapon possessed any special qualities, but
because the image of the soldier advancing with it did! To both sides the bayonet
charge was a significant emotional event, but it was not, as many would believe, the
engine of victory.
The Japanese soldier was very skilled at infiltration tactics and avoided
charging across open country into machineguns (Although such suicide charges did
occur when no other alternative seemed available.). Yet Japs hardly ever used
The original concept of the "bayonet" attack was developed during the age
of the muzzle loading musket. Until breech loading, cartridge ammunition was
invented, it required at least 30 seconds to reload. When you reached your enemy
and he had fired, and you had fired, the bayonet became the ideal weapon. While
he reloaded, you bayonated him - And you had 30 seconds to do it in. You could
charge him from 50 yards away, reach him, and bayonet him before he could reload
after firing. If you didn't have a bayonet on your musket, your life expectancy was
one shot.
became shorter but not quite short enough. A Japanese Model 98 rifle, with a six
round magazine, averaged about one shot every 10 seconds. In 10 seconds, you
might still be able to charge your opponent from 50 yards and bayonet him before
he got off another shot. Indeed! It was quite useless (and difficult to do) to shoot
your opponent from a distance. If you were assigned to capture a hill, shooting a
defender off the hill does not result in its capture. You have to physically take it.
Hence, in WWI, bayonet charges still occurred and would still be occurring today if
not for the invention of the machinegun which made it impossible for the attacker
to bayonet the defender "between shots". The attacker was simply mowed down.
In the June of 1937, aged only 21, Kenshiro Abbe enlisted in the army, and
for the next four years served in Manchuria. Unable to continue in Judo during
that time, he did continue with his Kendo training, as he was an officer.
His military career ended in 1941 and he returned to the Busen. However,
Japan entered the Second World War and he was recalled to Tokushima as the
head of a training unit. The Japanese were now concentrating on a new art,
Jukendo, the art of bayonet fighting. Kenshiro Abbe entered these studies as
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