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...modern police shields do not handle like the scutum. Center-grip shields seem to have been used a lot more aggressively than strap-grip shields. You slammed, bashed, wedged, and levered with them more. You *can* do those things with an aspis, but in terms of...12/23
...fighting systems, you seem to see a lot *more* of that sort of thing with center grip shields (obligatory caveat on how limited the evidence is and how much we are guessing from late medieval fighting treatises, etc, etc). So probably the awkward grip is actually good. 13/23
What about the formation? It's not a phalanx or a testudo or anything like that. What is it? It's a hollow musket square. I am almost certain that's where this formation has been adopted from. Note that there's a LOT of space inside of the square for people to...14/23
...move around in. Now, pike squares, no matter if it's 16th/17th century, or Seleucids at Magnesia (190) have very small 'hollows' in the center, if any. Check out this formation for a pike square: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_and_shot#/media/File:Pamphlet.jpg … But later (e.g. Napoleonic) squares...15/23
...went with hollow squares to maximize firepower. The square might be just 2 or 3 ranks deep, making it larger with an open center in the middle, so that everyone could be firing at encircling cavalry. To be clear, that's what the square is for - defense against cav...16/23
...it's big advantage is that you cannot be flanked, which matters most against highly mobile cavalry (or evidently, highly mobile protesters). In this case, I'd think that a more pike-like square would be better at resisting shock (like a rush of protesters)...17/23
...but I'm not at all surprised that the version of a square formation that's in the doctrine - and thus the one that someone pulled out the field manual to perform - happens to be the last militarily useful form of square. Cause that's how institutional memory works. 18/23
I can't make out the patches, but these look like Army National Guard soldiers (#miltwitter can correct me, I'm sure), in which case, I'd bet this is the first time any of them have ever had to form square. I'd be surprised if they'd even trained it, but a version of it...19/23
...is in the field manual, FM3-19.15, for 'Civil Disturbance Operations,' though it is three-sided, not four. https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-19-15.pdf … In terms of forming square, this would be unconscionably sloppy for a Napoleonic War infantry regiment (too slow, not nearly neat enough)..20/23
...but I think we should give our soldiers (if they are ANG like I think, they're soldiers) a break. I doubt they've had much need or time to drill this, and square is a hard formation to form quickly or well. Early gunpowder armies had to drill a TON to get it right...21/23
...more importantly, they're holding position and keeping their cool in the face of a crowd. They're responding to orders, keeping awareness and not letting themselves be provoked, nor are they provoking.
So in the important stuff, in this video, they're doing well.
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So that's that. It's a hollow rifle square, performed with riot shields, something from 1815 AD not 415 BC.
Regardless, I still love the hell out of their new impromptu drill instructor, especially his directions that they listen to what their staff sgt says. 
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