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Originally Posted by Homer
I’d heard of the Circle Trigons, but never knew there was doctrine!
The snappy helmet crest and DIY uniforms would have had me! It seems like there was as much of a premium on acting as there was on tactical training.
As a former member of the Cortina Liberation Front I definitely feel like somebody in Big Army put a lot more effort into the Circle Trigons, but I wonder who actually read all that stuff. And it was a lot easier to taunt BLUEFOR when you didn’t have to try to do it in Esperanto!
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There were five manuals with multiple editions of each over the years (for example, FM30-102 has editions of June 1947, August 1950, March 1951, September 1955, February 1959, June 1960, January 1963, May 1966, October 1969, and June 1973):
Aggressor: the Maneuver Enemy (FM30-101)
Esperanto, the Aggressor Language (FM30-101A or FM30-101-1 depending on edition)
Handbook on Aggressor Military Forces (FM30-102)
Aggressor Army Order of Battle (FM30-103)
Aggressor Army Representation, Operations, and Equipment (FM30-104)
There was also a referee's rulebook as FM30-105. According to the U.S. Army Military History Institute's bibliography of sources on Aggressor, Fort Riley (which was the main base for the program) had an Aggressor Supply Catalog, Aggressor Drill and Ceremonies, and Aggressor Rear Services pamphlets.