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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 258394" data-attributes="member: 515">Most modern mechanized warfare tactics call for a complete envelopment of the enemy. That's what the Germans developed for their Blitzkrieg in WWII, and was later used against them by the Russians on the Eastern Front, by Montgomery in Africa and by Patton in France. (During Barbarosa, the Germans discovered exactly what Sun Tzu had been talking about -- the surrounded Russians fought tenaciously and to the death. Very few would surrender).The Russians basically used a larger-scale version of the Bull's Horns to envelope the Germans at Stalingrad and reverse the course of the war.The tactic of envelopment has been further refined and is still used today -- the Isralis against the Arabs in the Sinai and the Coalition forces against Saddam Hussein in Kuwait-Iraq, for example. The idea is to surround the enemy with armor and mechanized infantry, and force the enemy to surrender. If they don't surrender immediately, you hold positions and hit them from the air and with artillery until they do surrender.</blockquote>