pincer

Examples of pincer in the following topics:

• The Allied Drive Toward Berlin

  • In the south, while Third Army headed east, the First Army headed northeast and formed the southern pincer of the Ruhr envelopment.
  • Ninth Army (assigned to Montgomery's British 21st Army Group) headed southeast forming the northern pincer, while the rest of 21st Army Group went east and northeast.

• The North Africa Campaign

  • In an attempt to pincer German and Italian forces, Allied forces, landed in Vichy-held French North Africa under the assumption that there would be little to no resistance.
  • Rommel and von Arnim found themselves in an Allied "two army" pincer.

• The North African Front

  • In an attempt to pincer German and Italian forces, Allied forces (American and British Commonwealth), landed in Vichy-held French North Africa under the assumption that there would be little to no resistance.
  • Rommel and von Arnim found themselves in an Allied "two army" pincer.

• Blitzkrieg

  • In 2000, Niklas Zetterling and Anders Frankson characterized only the southern pincer of the German offensive as a "classical blitzkrieg attack." 

• Expansion Throughout Central and Western Asia

  • His son Jochi led the first division into the northeast, and the second division under Jebe marched secretly to the southeast to form, with the first division, a pincer attack on Samarkand.

• Dunkirk and Vichy France

  • He believed that any enemy force emerging from the forest would be vulnerable to a pincer attack and destroyed.

• Operation Barbarossa

  • Hitler by now had lost faith in battles of encirclement as large numbers of Soviet soldiers had escaped the pincers.

• The Truman Doctrine

  • Truman, the growing unrest in Greece began to look like a pincer movement against the oil-rich areas of the Middle East and the warm-water ports of the Mediterranean.