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Originally Posted by Joemoplata  Draven, the American Army readily adopts martial arts of various kinds into it's curriculum. It did this with Judo and Karate as well. Their grappling programs are decent and I have personally gone against the West Point Submission Grappling team competitors in Sub Grappling tournaments. But they will glom onto the next big thing in another 10 years or so anyway. |
Perhaps, but the context of what they are doing is vastly more important then the systems used to get their. The U.S. Army Combatives programs were formally focused on boxing more then grappling & USMC's LINE Training (jujitsu to a cadence) was derived from judo, karate and traditional samurai jujutsu. All previous systems were intented to kill and enemy soldier (LINE especially), the modern face of warfare; peace keeping missions, so called "low intensity conflicts" and so on has turned soldiers into "UN Police Officers."
As for West Point, West Point isn't the service it's a primer school for officers. A cadet at west point is groomed to be an officer and even though they do spend time with active military units they often get better training then those units in the field, as far as academics go anyway. As for what they told when going through the US Army Combatives Instructor course BJJ was picked over top of judo and JJJ because of the reasons I stated. They found judo & BJJ equal on techniques but BJJ superior in principles of position and control. The basic Hand-to-hand at Fort Benning consists of very basic BJJ and boxing, the kali, and other systems that are included in the US Army hand-to-hand system are rarely taught to common infantry soldiers and is more common to Ranger Bat. and SOC units.