Definition of "pincer attack" []

• An attack in which two or more forces attack from multiple sides at once; especially one which thereby traps the enemy (noun)

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• "At the same time the Soviets launched a pincer attack from the area south of the Pogostye pocket in the east and the Kolpino-Rrasny Bor area in the west in an effort to capture Mga and the Kirov rail line."
• "Most important of all, and involving the commitment of practically the whole Soviet armoured reserve (and certainly all the new T 34 and KV formations), was to be a pincer attack by Timoshenko on the German positions before Kharkov."