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pincers movement

or pincer movement

noun

  1. a military maneuver in which both flanks of an enemy force are attacked with the aim of attaining complete encirclement.


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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of pincers movement1

First recorded in 1935–40
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On the city’s northern and southern flanks, where Russian troops had tried to encircle Bakhmut in a pincers movement, the Russians were coming up against Ukraine’s most motivated units and no longer had momentum, he said.

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Troops advanced in a pincers movement, attacking from the southwest and northeast, reaching at times the two roads.

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There’s kind of a pincers movement there, where you’ve got the government saying, “You need to take down these protest accounts because they’re terrorists, and that’s our law, so hand over identifying information.”

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Pyongyang sees itself caught in a “two-pronged pincers movement,” he said.

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On May 12, 1943, the Americans and the British staged a gigantic pincers movement to win the battle for Tunisia -- the essential staging point for invading Sicily and Italy.

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