Does the marine corps teach recruits martial arts?

No. I have seen a documentary "Behind Taliban Lines". Their training was like a joke with wooden AKs, and there wasn't much about physical training.

However, they received recon training about movement tracking and positioning IEDs in pitch black at night. Taliban attacks convertly rather than facing the enemies, so IEDs are the main core of attack and all trainings are related to it. Al Qaeda seemed to be better equipped with modern weaponry.

ISAF has been using wrong tactics to deal with Taliban and Al Qaeda. Basically every person in Afghan can be a potential Taliban recruit, and they like to attack you behind your back with a thumb click on the cellphone to activate IEDs. ISAF has tried to jam the cellphone signals, but Taliban has gone into buried wire connection.

Most ISAF casualties are the result of IED attacks and rarely from mortar or gunfire. You don't see any Taliban equipped with night vision, GPS, infra-red scan, UAV, smart bomb, electronic jammer, or even with a loaded rifle. They pick up empty ISAF plastic meal pouches from garbage and they fill them with home-made explosive from fertilizer.

An IED is made which appears like a piece of garbage on road. Whatever basic training programs that the US, British, Canadian, French, Dutch, German... are giving to their soliders are useless in front of the coward attacks from Taliban.

Any film /video will be propaganda,not the average taliban thugs. Press a trigger,is all they need.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.