encirclement strategy

Encirclement strategy - Envelop the opponents position.

Gentry had suggested to Taylor before the battle an encirclement strategy which Taylor rejected, charging that Gentry was afraid of a direct confrontation.

In another move that China might interpret as part of an encirclement strategy, the administration last week began to re-establish ties with the Indonesian Army, on which President Megawati Sukarnoputri is expected to rely as a national unifier.

Middleton's plan rested on an encirclement strategy: as his main contingent advanced directly against Métis defensive lines, the steamboat Northcote, carrying some of Middleton's troops, would steam past the distracted defenders and unload fifty men at the rear of the town, effectively closing the pincer.