Pincer movement

The term pliers attack (also referred to as a double enclosure ) is a military maneuvering movement. Here, the flanks of the opponent are attacked simultaneously in a pincer movement, while the own troops attack the movement of the opponent to dodge in the center of the front. The goal here is to enclose the opponent in a boiler and disconnect it from its rear connections.

In The Art of War Sun Tzu recommends that you completely encircle the opponent in the pincer attack and recommends instead to give him an escape route, on which he was then vulnerable.

For the first time the forceps maneuver may have occurred at the Battle of Marathon to use; Herodotus describes that the Athenian general Miltiades left surround the numerically superior Persians in a U- formation his soldiers.

The best-known application is the battle of Cannae, where Hannibal the attacking Romans took the pliers.

Khalid ibn al - Waleed applied the tactics in the Battle of Walaja 633

Other examples are the Battle of Manzikert, the Battle of Mohács ( 1526) and the Battle of woman city.

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