Combat Sciences
Currently, in the fighting arts literature, there are questions being asked on whether the martial arts are truly "War (martial) Arts." According to some tacticians, years of evolution and modification has altered the martial arts causing them to lose most of their combative application. In other words, they have become more sports and family oriented. There have also been suggestions that these martial arts should be called "Civil Arts" as opposed to "martial" which infers combative application. As a scholar in the martial arts the author has seen and experienced this diluting process. (more to come)
