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I was listening to Jocko Podcast a while ago. If you're not familiar, on Jocko Podcast the host frequently reads and analyzes historical war memoirs.

In one of the memoirs he read, the man detailed an encounter in WWII. I can't remember all of the details, but the encounter went something like this:

A German unit marched, in the dead of night, between two American lines. By the time the American's (who were exhausted from a steady stream of battle) realized the Germans were there, they couldn't fire because they might have struck the Americans on the other side of the German lines.

I don't know much about military history, but this struck me as odd. One of the few strategic maneuvers I know about is the Pincer movement, which I thought was the best situation you could find yourself in on the battlefield. With Americans on both sides of the Germans, in my mind I pictured a double envelopment. Is it common for people to be so close together they can't exploit the double envelopment? Does terrain play a role? Am I misunderstanding what a double envelopment is?

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