Army Field Manual 3-90, Tactics, there are five kinds of maneuver used in offensive operations: infiltration, penetration, frontal attacks, envelopments, and turning movements.
Envelopment. Envelopments send the attacking force around prominent enemy defenses to seize objectives in the enemy rear or to attack an assailable flank.
Drawing on French philosopher/cinema theorist Gilles Deleuze's view of the 'new baroque,' in which "we are discovering new ways of folding, akin to new envelopments
," he discusses (and shows images from) works including films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard, and Chris Marker; video installations by Thiery Kuntzel, Keith Piper, and Renate Ferro; and interactive media works by Toni Dove, Dave Rokeby, and Jill Scott.
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A plainspoken soldier, Liu was a capable and determined commander; he especially favored envelopments
and attacking from the rear, and won a reputation for his devastating "attacks from nowhere." <BL>
Conducting a spoiling attack, the Tigrayan army made successful use of two forms of maneuver -- envelopment
and frontal attack -- to annihilate an Italian brigade led by MG Matteo Albertonc.