One-on-one combat, except under unusual circumstances, went out years ago. Even the bayonet, that symbol of man-to-man, has been shortened since WWI; in WWII many were literally cut off short and ground down to a more useful size. Yeah, bayonet is still taught, but it and all other hand-to-hand combat is desperation stuff today.

There was an article in the local paper last night about a non-Iraqi volunteer weeping, crying that US troops are cowards because the fight in tanks and planes and "won't come out and fight like men." He was taken after he emptied 10 magazines of an AK47 at American troops in armored personnel carriers; his legs were taken off by a shell blast, and the US medics are currently patching him up in the hospital where he was interviewed.

I suspect that his tears are really less about a lack of fighting and more about being lied to, lied to about everything and then given a rifle and ammo and sent off to die.

Raw courage doesn't stand up to flechette rounds.