Suddenly the map will look very different, with Israel facing what one analyst calls Islamist "encirclement: Hezbollah from the north (in Lebanon), Hamas from the west (in Gaza) and the Muslim Brotherhood from the south (in Sinai)." If that scenario doesn't sound gloomy enough, Israel will have lost something even deeper.
Turkish soldiers are watching the encirclement of Kobani from their positions a few hundred yards away.
Having fled from encirclement in the town of Ilovaysk, their column of 70 armoured vehicles and hundreds of soldiers was ambushed and shelled, according to one soldier.
In the Polish and French campaigns and then in the Ukraine I spent most of my time with infantry units behind the tanks in one battle of encirclement after another, from Kiev to Smolensk, and later, when the mud season set in, with an engineering division that laid log roads for supplies and reinforcements and did general repair work.
The Ju 87s participated in a huge aerial counter-offensive lasting from 16 31 July against a Soviet offensive at Khotynets and saved two German armies from encirclement, reducing the attacking Soviet 11th Guards Army to just 33 tanks by 20 July.
Encirclement, with pressure from China in the north, Pakistan in the west, Sri Lanka in the south, and Myanmar and Bangladesh in the east, leaves India a step behind China in the awkward waltz they have been dancing to attract allies and gain security.
Germany was defending its lone reliable ally from attack and itself from entente encirclement.
While I was dressing, I heard the boat whistle, first the warning signal and then the double blast, and I could see the good people on the top deck drinking coffee out of fragile paper cups, and Lawrence at the bow, saying to the sea, "Thalassa, thalassa," while his timid and unhappy children watched the creation from the encirclement of their mother's arms..
While I was dressing, I heard the boat whistle, first the warning signal and then the double blast, and I could see the good people on the top deck drinking coffee out of fragile paper cups, and Lawrence at the bow, saying to the sea, "Thalassa, thalassa," while his timid and unhappy children watched the creation from the encirclement of their mother's arms.
