08-09-2015, 09:09 PM
Quote:How come the UK riot police are never attacking the rioters on the run, offensively? I'm seeing a lot of defensive standing still, not a lot of the style of fighting with "impetus" like what Caesar describes. If a force is defensive, basically serving as a human wall, to either stop or press their foes into a different direction, their tactics, deployment, formation, and fighting style will differently greatly than another unit whose purpose is to break an enemy's line. The Romans had defensive formations too, like the testudo, but those weren't exactly good units for attacking.
It depends entirely on what you are trying to achieve. When a dispersal operation takes place that almost always uses the speed of the units to create a 'flocking' effect on the crowd and start them running away. In the incident in the video I posted earlier the police task was to prevent entry to a specific area, followed by containing the crowd after they became violent which is why they were mainly static.
This is what a multi-unit dispersal looks like;
Dispersal in Hackney
Although that is using the Mets equipment and tactics which are slightly different to those used in NI.
Quote:Did your riot units ever use a formation resembling a wedge? Did they get flanked or swallowed up by the mob? Something like this
Not against violent crowds. There is a tactic known as the wedge which is for escorting someone through a largely peaceful crowd.
Adam
No man resisted or offered to stand up in his defence, save one only, a centurion, Sempronius Densus, the single man among so many thousands that the sun beheld that day act worthily of the Roman empire.
No man resisted or offered to stand up in his defence, save one only, a centurion, Sempronius Densus, the single man among so many thousands that the sun beheld that day act worthily of the Roman empire.
