vertical envelopment
Americannoun
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To the broad picture of overall strategy, the First Allied Airborne Army was contributing its own ultramodern specialty: vertical envelopment of an enemy position.
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Some hopefully point to the fact that the usually resourceful Viet Cong have not yet developed a way of coping with the "vertical envelopment" by the U.S. helicopters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each of the three corps areas has a U.S. company of 20 helicopters to help in "vertical envelopment" of the Viet Cong.
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Paratrooper Ridgway pushed hard for building up the "vertical envelopment" war.
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