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Recently I've been going down a rabbithole with Aggressor, the US Army's first OPFOR training scenario and by far the most detailed, with its own alternate history scenario covering the rise of a new superpower capable of threatening the US in a wide range of environments, from interference in the Caribbean to invading Alaska. Aggressor, the so-called 'Maneuver Enemy', was conceived as arising shortly after WW2, with fascist remnants from Germany and Italy finding refuge in Franco's Spain, and ultimately creating the Circle Trigon Party with the support of Spanish and Italian industrialists and military leaders, which seizes control of Spain, Bavaria, northern Italy and southern France, uniting as a new European powerhouse. Circle Trigon - representing the three pillars of agriculture, industry and faith - is a deeply authoritarian ideology*, although it is careful to present itself as racially and religiously inclusive and indeed sponsors partisan movements across the world against 'imperialist' powers.

It should be noted that as far as can be determined from the literature, the country's actual *name* is Aggressor; it's even noted that the Aggressor Army is 'aptly named'. A significant distinctive is that Aggressor uses Esperanto as its official language of State, 'modified by local usage', and accordingly I decided that the official name of the country must be Agresanto ('Respubliko de'?), and that this is a RoBerTo-style concatenation of its promise to its citizens - Agrikulturo-Religio-Sano-Totalismo: Farming, Religion, Health, Total State Control or, as more snappily rendered by Anglosphere critics 'Food-Faith-Fitness-Fascism'.

I have depicted Aggressor here in the chaotic years following WW2, when it swallows up large sections of Western Europe. The handbook seems rather unclear about the circumstances under which this takes place; the area of Germany depicted as annexed by Aggressor seems to suggest it assumes control of the US occupation zone, while France seems like it could only be the result of a breakdown of a law and order as the Fourth Republic falters, creating a vacuum that the Circle Trigon is able to fill. This would also suggest that France has lost control of its colonies - while the handbook is unclear as to whether Aggressor maintains Spanish colonies, it does mention a force posted in Morocco, which I have interpreted as it taking control of former French Morocco and fusing it with Spanish Morocco and Spanish Sahara.

Aggressor has been depicted with two possible extents - my take on the larger, seemingly depicting the annexation of the rest of France and Germany, can be found here: Aggressor 1952 .

* One of its three coequal heads is Martin Bormann - yes, that Martin Bormann - together with former general Pilar Cordoba and industrialist Tito Farruchi. Worth noting from 1953, Emil Deutsch, the former Secretary of the Central Committee, seizes power Stalin-style.

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Recently I've been going down a rabbithole with Aggressor, the US Army's first OPFOR training scenario and by far the most detailed, with its own alternate history scenario covering the rise of a new superpower capable of threatening the US in a wide range of environments, from interference in the Caribbean to invading Alaska. Aggressor, the so-called 'Maneuver Enemy', was conceived as arising shortly after WW2, with fascist remnants from Germany and Italy finding refuge in Franco's Spain, and ultimately creating the Circle Trigon Party with the support of Spanish and Italian industrialists and military leaders, which seizes control of Spain, Bavaria, northern Italy and southern France, uniting as a new European powerhouse. Circle Trigon - representing the three pillars of agriculture, industry and faith - is a deeply authoritarian ideology*, although it is careful to present itself as racially and religiously inclusive and indeed sponsors partisan movements across the world against 'imperialist' powers.

It should be noted that as far as can be determined from the literature, the country's actual *name* is Aggressor; it's even noted that the Aggressor Army is 'aptly named'. A significant distinctive is that Aggressor uses Esperanto as its official language of State, 'modified by local usage', and accordingly I decided that the official name of the country must be Agresanto ('Respubliko de'?), and that this is a RoBerTo-style concatenation of its promise to its citizens - Agrikulturo-Religio-Sano-Totalismo: Farming, Religion, Health, Total State Control or, as more snappily rendered by Anglosphere critics 'Food-Faith-Fitness-Fascism'.

I have depicted Aggressor here in the chaotic years following WW2, when it swallows up large sections of Western Europe. The handbook seems rather unclear about the circumstances under which this takes place; the area of Germany depicted as annexed by Aggressor seems to suggest it assumes control of the US occupation zone, while France seems like it could only be the result of a breakdown of a law and order as the Fourth Republic falters, creating a vacuum that the Circle Trigon is able to fill. This would also suggest that France has lost control of its colonies - while the handbook is unclear as to whether Aggressor maintains Spanish colonies, it does mention a force posted in Morocco, which I have interpreted as it taking control of former French Morocco and fusing it with Spanish Morocco and Spanish Sahara.

Aggressor has been depicted with two possible extents - my take on the larger, seemingly depicting the annexation of the rest of France and Germany, can be found here: Aggressor 1952 .

* One of its three coequal heads is Martin Bormann - yes, that Martin Bormann - together with former general Pilar Cordoba and industrialist Tito Farruchi. Worth noting from 1953, Emil Deutsch, the former Secretary of the Central Committee, seizes power Stalin-style.