pincer attack

English

The successful pincer attack executed by the Red Army against German forces at the Battle of Stalingrad.

Noun

pincer attack (plural pincer attacks)

1. (military) An attack in which two or more forces attack from multiple sides at once.
   1. A set of simultaneous attacks against the flanks of an enemy salient in order to cut off and trap the enemy in an encirclement.

Translations

attack from multiple sides

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• Bulgarian: кле́щи (bg) m pl (kléšti)
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 雙頭夾／双头夹 (siang-thâu-kiap)

  Mandarin: 夾攻／夹攻 (zh) (jiāgōng), 夾擊／夹击 (zh) (jiājī)

• Czech: sevření do kleští n
• Danish: knibtangsmanøvre c
• Dutch: tangbeweging (nl) f
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• Finnish: pihtiliike
• French: mouvement en tenaille m
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• Irish: gluaiseacht phionsúir f, pionsúrghluaiseacht f
• Japanese: 挟み撃ち (hasamiuchi), 挟撃 (ja) (kyōgeki)
• Korean: 협격(挾擊) (hyeopgyeok), 협공(挾攻) (hyeopgong)
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• Persian: حملهٔ گازانبری (hamle-ye gâz-anbori)
• Polish: manewr okrążający m
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• Russian: взять в клещи (vzjatʹ v klešči)
• Serbo-Croatian: obuhvatni napad m
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• Spanish: movimiento de pinza m, movimiento de doble embolsamiento m
• Swedish: kniptångsmanöver (sv) c
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