When neither enemy deployment nor the terrain favors encirclement, that is. From Wordnik.com. [FM 100-61 Chptr 2 Strategic Operations]
The encirclement is a deep flanking maneuver (related to the tactical-level envelopment, but on a larger scale). From Wordnik.com. [FM 100-61 Chptr 4 Army Group Offensive Operations]
The notion of "encirclement," in fact, is a current commonplace, even if that isn't the term used today. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference
India is increasingly alarmed by this strategic development, which it claims is part of China's growing "encirclement" of India. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Margolis: Kashmir Could Start a Nuclear War] Reference
It is bigger even than Russia's fear of "encirclement" or the fears of its near neighbors that Russia wants to swallow them up. From Wordnik.com. [Russia Blog] Reference
The old fear of "encirclement" has revived in Moscow, and the Russians warn that relations will get very frosty indeed if NATO expands into these countries. From Wordnik.com. [NOW Magazine] Reference
"encirclement" fever in these exchanges, like German neurosis in the decade before 1914 that became self-fulfilling. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The great battle of encirclement near Uman came to an end. From Wordnik.com. [Panzer Aces]
The entire 1st Panzer Army was threatened with encirclement. From Wordnik.com. [Panzer Aces]
And how do you complete the internal encirclement of al Qaeda?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2005] Reference
HARRISON: Well, the term that we just coined is porous encirclement. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2003] Reference
Bfauchitsch had arrived to oversee the last stages of the encirclement. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarossa]
HARRISON: Well, we can call it encirclement, but encirclement in a tactical sense. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2003] Reference
Can any of your battalions attempt the encirclement of Folkestone from the east? '. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
At the beginning of February the corps was facing encirclement in and around Kharkov. From Wordnik.com. [Panzer Aces]
And it was thought that the encirclement of his compound was, in some ways, a compromise. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2002] Reference
Right now, the encirclement of Basra, the second largest city in Iraq, is almost complete. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2003] Reference
Dor had found a way to travel quickly, and now maybe they could complete the encirclement!. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
You win this particular war by completing what I call the internal encirclement of al Qaeda. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2005] Reference
The report is indeed the case that we're getting about an encirclement of the Iraqi capital. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2003] Reference
Still there were not enough creatures to complete the encirclement of the swarm on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
The latter decision would of course lead to encirclement and destruction of II SS-Panzer Corps. From Wordnik.com. [Panzer Aces]
As a result, in the following weeks the enemy was able to complete the encirclement of Cherkassy. From Wordnik.com. [Panzer Aces]
Some people compare this encirclement to 20 years ago, when Ariel Sharon's forces surrounded Beirut. From Wordnik.com. [Still Fighting, Still Confident] Reference
A Turco-Korean alliance would have meant for China a sort of encirclement that might have grave consequences. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
Guderian was driving south in his armoured radio truck, directing a whole new series of encirclement battles. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarossa]
He was busy staring at the veiled Aiel bursting out of their encirclement with spears and heavy-bladed knives. From Wordnik.com. [The Fires of Heaven]
Now, with the second encirclement at Smolensk and the capture of Yelnya, he believed that he had been granted this. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarossa]
Yet Zhukov's chances of bringing off a second encirclement were quite different from November of the previous year. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarossa]
But then the specter of encirclement rose up: if Austria disintegrated, Germany would face France and Russia alone. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
The United States must help Arab and Muslim public civil societies to complete what I call the internal encirclement of al Qaeda. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2005] Reference
Would the Germans wheel right, to Kaluga, to bring off one more ruinous encirclement of the bedraggled armies that faced Guderian?. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarossa]
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