Anything is fair game.

This is what cracks me up about so-called tough guys who think their MMA/boxing skills means they can pick fights out in public. You can be world champion of whatever the fuck. It all goes out the window when someone pulls a knife or a gun. The best self defense is to not get into confrontations and to de-escalate. Especially when it involves countries with militaries.

Everybody thinks they got a plan until they get shot in the face.

I am more comfortable fighting someone bigger than me tbh. I'm pretty smol both weight and height-wise. I have bare knuckle boxed way bigger and frankly way tougher friends, like old school train hoppers, pre oogle era, and also more recently did some free form grappling with a co-worker who was just short of representing Japan in the Olympics for judo. Turns out a lot of judo stuff comes natural to me cause I used to fight people bigger than me a lot, and also I can strafe around a large person faster than they can turn on the spot and most of my body is below their shoulders so all I reslly need to worry about is my head cause body shots would be awkward. Real fighting is another whole thing and i'm hust not doing that as an adult, too dangerous.

Ideal soldier physique is supposed to be lean so they don't have to carry that much weight when they march and short so their center of gravity is lower. Basically how your average soldier in Ansarallah looks like.