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Permanently fell out of use you say? As soon as one needs the same tactics, one needs the same design of shields and a similar kind of training.

Here Kyrgyzstan riot police doing what they call a "turtle" with rectangular shields:

and those are Italian Carabineri doing the same:

Now compare that to the classical depiction of roman "testudo formation".

Permanently fell out of use you say? As soon as one needs the same tactics, one needs the same design of shields and a similar kind of training.

Here Kyrgyzstan riot police doing what they call a "turtle" with rectangular shields:

and those are Venezuelans doing the same:

Now compare that to the classical depiction of roman "testudo formation".

Permanently fell out of use you say? As soon as one needs the same tactics, one needs the same design of shields and a similar kind of training.

Here Kyrgyzstan riot police doing what they call a "turtle" with rectangular shields:

and those are Italian Carabineri doing the same:

Now compare that to the classical depiction of roman "testudo formation".

Romans http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Testudo_formation.jpg

Permanently fell out of use you say? As soon as one needs the same tactics, one needs the same design of shields and a similar kind of training.

Here Kyrgyzstan riot police doing what they call a "turtle" with rectangular shields:

and those are Italian Carabineri doing the same:

Now compare that to the classical depiction of roman "testudo formation".

Permanently fell out of use you say? As soon as one needs the same tactics, one needs the same design of shields and a similar kind of training.

Here Kyrgyzstan riot police doing what they call a "turtle" with rectangular shields:

and those are Italian Carabineri doing the same:

Italy http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l224/Lancero1/junho/15b6997f.jpg

Now compare that to the classical depiction of roman "testudo formation".

Romans http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Testudo_formation.jpg

Permanently fell out of use you say? As soon as one needs the same tactics, one needs the same design of shields and a similar kind of training.

Here Kyrgyzstan riot police doing what they call a "turtle" with rectangular shields:

and those are Italian Carabineri doing the same:

Now compare that to the classical depiction of roman "testudo formation".

Romans http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Testudo_formation.jpg