Crossword clues for envelopment
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Envelopment \En*vel"op*ment\, n. [Cf. F. enveloppement.]
The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides.
That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1751, from envelop (v.) + -ment.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of enveloping 2 (context military English) An offensive action in which an attacking force moves over or around the enemy and attacks from the rear; see also pincer movement 3 (context fencing English) An action to seize the opponent's blade in one line and lead it (without losing contact) through a full circle to end in the same line
WordNet
Wikipedia
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 their defenses are strongest. A successful envelopment lessens the number of casualties suffered by the attacker while inducing a psychological shock on the defender and improving the chances to destroy them. An envelopment will consist of one or more enveloping forces, which attacks the enemy's flank(s), and a fixing force, which attacks the enemy's front and "fixes" them in place so that they cannot withdraw or shift their focus on the enveloping forces. While a successful tactic, there are risks involved with performing an envelopment. The enveloping force can become overextended and cut off from friendly forces by an enemy counterattack, or the enemy can counterattack against the fixing force.
According to the United States Army there exist four types of envelopment:
- A flanking maneuver or single envelopment consists of one enveloping force on a flank. attacking one of the enemy's flanks. This is extremely effective if the holding forces are in a well defensible spot (e.g. Alexander the Great's hammer and anvil at the Battle of Issus) or if there is a strong, hidden line behind a weak flank (e.g. Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) and Battle of Rocroi).
- A pincer movement or double envelopment consists of two simultaneous flanking maneuvers. Hannibal devised this strategy at his tactical masterpiece, Cannae. Early in World War II the Germans frequently employed this tactic and encircled huge numbers of the enemy during the Blitzkrieg attacks on both the Western Front during the Battle of France and during Operation Barbarossa on the Eastern Front.
- An encirclement whereby the enemy is completely surrounded and isolated in a pocket. The friendly forces can choose to attack the pocket or invest it (to stop supplies getting and to prevent breakouts) and wait for a beleaguered enemy to surrender.
- A vertical envelopment is "a tactical maneuver in which troops, either air-dropped or air-landed, attack the rear and flanks of a force, in effect cutting off or encircling the force".
Usage examples of "envelopment".
As for putting your linga there, well, do not even consider it, but imagine the sensation of that close, soft, warm envelopment of it And behold the nipples, like thumbs, and their halos, like saucers, and all black as night against the golden fawn skin.
Italian Mobile Corps, with Trento and Trieste Divisions and elements German 90th Light Division, at Marada to prevent envelopment Agheila by us from south.
The higher embraces the lower, as it were, so that all development is envelopment.
Only by a strategy of envelopment, using Belgium as a pathway, could the German armies, in Schlieften’s opinion, attack France successfully.
The basic outline, if not the details, of the “colossal Cannae” prepared for the envelopment of the French and British armies was revealed and the identity of the author surmised.
Could they not in fact accomplish a true Cannae, the double envelopment that Schlieffen had held in the back of his mind?
Perhaps, after all, the two armies of the left wing could succeed in breaking through the French fortified line and in cooperation with the right wing bring about a true Cannae —a double envelopment.
The perfect Cannae that Schlieffen had dreamed of and renounced, the double envelopment by the left wing through Lorraine simultaneously with the right wing around Paris, now seemed possible of achievement.
But of course, said Major Dommes, he was obliged by Moltke’s instructions to warn of all the hazards of a counteroffensive of which the chief and overwhelming one was that it would be a frontal attack—that anathema of German military doctrine—with envelopment impossible because of the mountains and the French fortresses.
I have it from a confidential source on Samorset’s staff that Blount is being disciplined for the sloppy way he handled the Glasgow envelopment, and for his inability to quell the resistance.
His decision to break off battle at Charleroi when threatened with double envelopment by Billow’.
Achillas, you suffered the double envelopment, being hit on your flank as you engaged Petar.
Lee attacked on July 2 but was unable to achieve a double envelopment of the Union forces--though he did inflict heavy casualties.
The envelopments were continuous binds in which the point of his blade made complete circles.
He correctly predicated the German plan of attack upon a right-wing envelopment but, schooled in the French theories, estimated the force that would come down west ol the Meuse at no more than four divisions.