Original artwork, not a still
Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker presents a military plan as deliberately plain: isolate the opposing force first, then destroy it. The bluntness is the point, offering a two-step logic with no elaboration, and it conveys confidence and finality while reducing a complex operation to a stark sequence of actions.
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