Word: pincer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result of this maneuver was in doubt at week's end (the German High Command called the report of the encirclement "plain nonsense"). Elsewhere the Red Army's anniversary push met stiffening resistance. A second Russian pincer, laid around Dorogobuzh in the central sector, had so far failed to close on another Nazi Army. In "a southern sector" Russia conceded a German wedge of 24 square miles into the Russian line...
They could act with China to put a counter-pincer on the Japanese pincer in the Indies. This would have to be done by building up a striking force in Australia sufficiently strong to work its way up through the Indies and make a juncture with the Chinese; it would be a U.S. and Australian force, and it would not be ready by spring...
...Allies could act with Russia to put a counter-pincer on the German pincer in Europe. This would entail an assault in force on Europe timed to coincide with a major Russian drive. It would depend on the British. Apparently the Germans fear such a move. There have been rumors that Hitler would invade Sweden soon-as a counter-counter pincer on the expected counter-pincer on his pincer. Last week, with no ostensible reason for doing so, the Stockholm correspondent of the New York Times went out of his way to suggest the possibility by denying it: "Swedish...
Until a month ago the attacks on Russia and China were direct. Then Germany began trying to stabilize its Russian front and Japan turned from China to attack the Philippines and Singapore. Object: to effect a vast pincer movement aimed at choking the only adequate supply lines to Russia and China, the Persian Gulf route and the Burma Road...
...Rommel was not much better off than the Italians this week. British southern units cutting northwest from the desert oases apparently blocked his exit to Tripolitania. A force of Coldstream Guards, Royal Armoured Corps and South African armored cars moved southward from Bengasi to close the pincer...