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Single envelopment: A consolidated prong (flank) beating its opponent opposite end, and with the aid of holding attacks, attack an opponent in the rear. Sometimes, the establishment of a strong, hidden force behind a weak flank will prevent your opponent from carrying out their own single envelopment. (e.g., Battle of Rocroi).
[1] The "hammer and anvil" tactic is fundamentally a single envelopment, and is to be distinguished from a simple encirclement where one group simply keeps an enemy occupied, while a flanking force delivers the coup de grace. The strongest expression of the concept is where both echelons are sufficient in themselves to strike a decisive blow.
Feint – A maneuver designed to distract or mislead, done by giving the impression that a certain maneuver will take place, while in fact another, or even none, will. Flanking maneuver – Involves attacking the opponent from the side, or rear; Guerrilla tactics – Involves ambushes on enemy troops. Usually used by insurgency.
Envelopment is the military tactic of seizing objectives in the enemy's rear with the goal of destroying specific enemy forces and denying them the ability to withdraw. Rather than attacking an enemy head-on, as in a frontal assault , an envelopment seeks to exploit the enemy's flanks , attacking them from multiple directions and avoiding where ...
Military historians cite it as the first successful use of the pincer movement that was recorded in detail, [1] by the Greek historian Polybius. It was also later used by Khalid ibn al-Walid at the Battle of Walaja in 633, by Alp Arslan at the Battle of Manzikert in 1071 (under the name crescent tactic) and by Saladin at the Battle of Hattin in ...
Maneuver warfare, the use of initiative, originality and the unexpected, combined with a ruthless determination to succeed, [1] seeks to avoid opponents' strengths while exploiting their weaknesses and attacking their critical vulnerabilities and is the conceptual opposite of attrition warfare. Rather than seeking victory by applying superior ...
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The Battle of Marathon, an example of the double-envelopment, a form of flanking maneuver. In military tactics, a flanking maneuver is a movement of an armed force around an enemy force's side, or flank, to achieve an advantageous position over it. [1]