<P> De-emphasized in the United States after World War II , insurgency conflicts such as the Vietnam War , low intensity conflict , and urban warfare tend to encourage more attention to combatives . While the United States Marine Corps replaced its LINE combat system with Marine Corps Martial Arts Program in 2002 , The United States Army adopted the Modern Army Combatives ( MAC ) program the same year with the publishing of Field Manual 3 - 25.150 . MAC draws from systems such as Brazilian Jiu - Jitsu , Judo , Muay Thai , Boxing and Eskrima , which could be trained `` live '' and can be fully integrated into current Close Quarters Battle tactics and training methods . </P>
<P> De-emphasized in the United States after World War II , insurgency conflicts such as the Vietnam War , low intensity conflict , and urban warfare tend to encourage more attention to combatives . While the United States Marine Corps replaced its LINE combat system with Marine Corps Martial Arts Program in 2002 , The United States Army adopted the Modern Army Combatives ( MAC ) program the same year with the publishing of Field Manual 3 - 25.150 . MAC draws from systems such as Brazilian Jiu - Jitsu , Judo , Muay Thai , Boxing and Eskrima , which could be trained `` live '' and can be fully integrated into current Close Quarters Battle tactics and training methods . </P>
when was the first combatives field manual written
when was the first combatives field manual written
in 2002
in 2002