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| '''Pockets of resistance''' is a term made popular by the ], referring to widespread but separated resistance in ] following the ] by the ]. | |||
| The term had been in use for about a century before that. Its first use in the ] was in 1899, and corresponded to the development of land warfare strategies using a continuous front. The static trench warfare of the Western Front during ] did not produce many pockets of resistance; but as continuous front warfare became more mobile, pockets of resistance became more common as small groups of soldiers were bypassed by mobile offensives. | |||
| In ], the German <i>Panzer</i> divisions were deliberately used to create pockets of resistance that were encircled, then reduced and collapsed by infantry units. This strategy was described as <i>Kesselschlacht</i> ("kettle battle") and was employed with great success in the invasions of Poland (1939) and ], Belgium and the Netherlands (1940). | |||
| In France (1940) and in Yugoslavia (April 1941), pockets of resistance eventually developed into ]. In both cases, small groups of regular army soldiers with their weapons became the nucleus of national resistance movements. | |||
| The same <i>Kesselschlacht</i> strategy was used by the Germans against the Soviet army in 1941 and initially produced even greater success, first at ] where over 250,000 Soviet soldiers were killed or captured, and then in the great encirclement at ] which produced over 600,000 Soviet soldiers killed, missing or captured. Four Soviet armies, comprising 43 divisions, had ceased to exist. | |||
| But many pockets of resistance eventually fed the Russian and Ukrainian partisan movements; and the Red Army learned quickly, counterattacking at ] in 1942 and creating an encirclement that trapped and destroyed the German Seventh Army, along with two Romanian divisions. Other attempts to encircle the German army on the Eastern Front led to climactic battles at ] and the ]. At both Velikiye Luki and Korsun, significant numbers of encircled German soldiers were able to ] through the Soviet lines to reach safety. The Soviet encirclement strategy eventually culminated in the destruction of Germany's ] by dividing it into several small pockets of resistance in the summer of 1944. Over 350,000 German soldiers were killed or captured. | |||
| The Western Allies had invaded occupied France at Normandy on ], 1944. This led to another attempt to encircle the German army in the ]. Eventually the American forces became overextended, allowing German <i>Panzer</i> divisions one final <i>Kesselschlacht</i> in the ], where the 101st Airborne Division was encircled. This time the encirclement was not a success, as General George S. Patton's Third Army broke the encirclement. | |||
| In the ], the highly mobile amphibious strategy developed by the Americans, known as ], also produced pockets of resistance as | |||
| many Japanese island garrisons were isolated, particularly at the great naval bases of ] and ]. The Americans frequently bypassed the larger, more heavily defended bases, preferring to capture more weakly defended islands that could provide airfields and naval bases to continue their advance toward Japan. | |||
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