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Rattenkrieg! is about CQB tactics, techniques, tools, and training in a primarily LE team setting. Taubert defines CQB shooting as 1) precise hi-speed shooting while moving, 2) within 15 yards, 3) under marginal light, 4) with multiple threats present, 5) with innocents close to the BGs, 6) while wearing impeding gear, 7) in the presence of noise and smoke, and 8) in confined areas.
Book Review: Rattenkrieg! by Bob Taubert
There are an awful lot of firearms instructors out there, almost all teaching CQB skills of one sort or another. And while the legitimate repertoire of handgun skills does change somewhat over time (indeed, it has changed substantially over the last 15 years), during any given year the palette of techniques from which instructors can choose (without drifting into the outright weird or simply trendy) is fairly defined. That's why I don't really look to teachers and trainers to provide new techniques (although they can and often do), but usually I look carefully at the specific existing techniques that they choose to embrace. That is, the difference these days between one (good) trainer and another is often what, out of the spectrum of techniques available "on the market" so to speak, they choose to teach. As an analogy: Macys has a finite selection of clothes from which to choose in any given year; it's the selection from that spectrum of choices that make one man well-dressed and another not so much.
So...who would you want to be your guide to the CQB pistol techniques currently available? How about a combat veteran who was there at the beginning of CQB as a discipline, who over the decades has...