Talk:Pocket (military)

figures wrong
"In the winter of 1939–1940, Finnish troops encircled in a series of coordinated assaults approx. 50,000 Red army soldiers in the Battle of Suomussalmi with Soviet casualties exceeding over 30,000, while Finnish casualties stayed relatively low, approx. 1,000 soldiers (estimates vary). Escaping Red army soldiers abandoned hundreds of weapons and vehicles which were later used by the Finnish forces."

yet the Battle of Suomussalmi article says the Soviet strength was "Total: 29,816" - so the figures are wrong somehow. 88.112.31.26 (talk) 00:33, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Yet another nonsensical "literal" "translation" from German
The article says, "In German the word Kessel (literally a cauldron though cognate with kettle) ...". Can the author of that line say where a kettle stops and a cauldron begins – in any language? As to German, does the author of that line not know that Kessel can also mean a hot-water heater or an industrial boiler – or a teakettle? I'm going to delete the parenthesis containing that lexicographical nonsense. Wegesrand (talk) 11:23, 28 May 2024 (UTC)