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Hansel Wong wrote:
I'll concede that aikido is quite recent and it has deviated from aikijujitsu, but it's history is most definitely martial and in fact it has been used in modern military and law enforcement today, which are modern battlefields if nothing else. And if you are saying that that is wrong.
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I am saying that aikido, itself, has never been a battlefield art. To claim that it is because it derives from older arts is to completely ignore Ueshiba Sensei's contributions, and in particular the many many changes in aikido between his experiences in Mongolia -- his last personal battlefield experience -- and his death 65 years later.
The differences between modern law enforcement and any battlefield -- modern or otherwise -- are so vast that attempting to equate them is likely to lead to disastrous mistakes in both strategy and tactics. (See many recent US examples.)
Katherine