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* A raid went awry, cutting off their escape route.
* Prisoners of war escaped.
* In the case of mercenaries (like [[
May lead to a [[You Are in Command Now]] situation. Usually contains at least some [[Field Promotion]]. [[You Shall Not Pass]] may be
See also [[Fighting For
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Behind Enemy Lines]]'' and its sequels.
* ''[[Black Hawk Down]]'' - Based on [[Real Life]].
* ''[[A Bridge Too Far]]'' - Based on [[Real Life]].
* ''Centurion''
* ''[[Flight of the Intruder]]'', both the book and the [[Flight of the Intruder (
* ''[[The Warriors (
* ''[[The Wild Geese]]'' (1978) and its remake (2010)
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[
** Also [[Andre Norton]]'s novel ''Star Guard'' (1955)
** Also Harold Coyle's novel ''The Ten Thousand'' (1993)
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* Happens in just about every [[Sven Hassel]] novel, including an obligatory scene where Sven and his colleagues find themselves in the midst of enemy troops and either get mistaken for a special unit (e.g. [[German Russians|Volga Germans]] or Foreign Legion), or saved by [[Cunning Linguist|Porta's quick-thinking chatter]].
* The [[Ciaphas Cain]] novel ''Death or Glory'' starts with the titular protagonist and his faithful aide Jurgen [[Escape Pod|landing]] in the middle of an Ork-infested continent, half a world away from the front lines. [[Accidental Hero|In Cain's attempts to find friendly forces to put between himself and danger]], things snowball until he's [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|cobbled together a small army of soldiers, civilians and militia]] cutting its way out from the heart of Orkish territory and turning the tide of the whole war.
* At the end of the ''[[Wing Commander (
* [[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* One episode of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' has Nog and Jake in a shuttle, inside Dominion space, about to be blown up... and then the ''Valiant'', which has been trapped in Dominion space since the start of the war (because of their captain's ego more than anything else, it's a crew of cadets, one of whom was given a field promotion to acting captain and ignored the common sense/orders to return home), shows up and rescues them. The rest of the episode deals with their self-designed mission behind enemy lines.
* The Polish [[WW 2]] series "Czterej pancerni i pies" had this as a recurring plot device. The titular tank crew would find themselves behind enemy lines either because an enemy counterattack managed to cut off their position or because their mission was to move around the enemy and attack them from behind.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Peanuts]]'', this happened to Snoopy a lot when [[Mr. Imagination| he was pretending]] to be a [[Ace Pilot| World War I Flying Ace.]]
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''Mechwarrior 3''
* The last mission of ''[[Halo: Reach]]'' is this. {{spoiler|The player character is the last surviving member of Noble team on Reach. The mission is a desperate [[Last Stand]].}}
* ''Shadow Company: Left For Dead'' begins with your employer abandoning your mercenary group in the middle of enemy territory after a mission goes awry.
* Subverted by ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''. It could've been played this way, but Tear uses her "[[Diplomatic Impunity|I'm from the Order of Lorelei]]" card, which ropes [[Colonel Badass|Jade]] (who ''should've'' been skewering Luke since their nations are at war) into helping out instead. (And Jade's [[Reasonable Authority Figure|reasonable enough]] to ask some questions first anyhow.)
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* The main story of ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'' has this happen to Welkin and Alicia after a mortar causes them to fall of a cliff. One of the DLCs has this happen to Edy Nelson and some of the squad after she goes [[Leeroy Jenkins]] on some Imperials and [[Cold Sniper|Marina]] [[Not So Stoic|gets distracted by a puppy]], pulling them even further in.
* ''[[Operation Flashpoint]]'' : ''And how !'' Nearly in ''every other'' mission of the campaign...
* Most of [[Silent Hunter]] series is spent in enemy waters as that is a submariner's job. And of course you can easily get trapped there.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''Diplomacy'', a pre-WWI simulator (sort of): subversion. If this happens to one of your units, it can actually '''strengthen''' your position.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Happens quite a bit in the first book of [[The Salvation War]], seeing as everyone who dies ends up in [[Hell]]. Leads to the formation of [[La Résistance]], with the odd historical character or twelve joining, no less.
* A common enough thing on any wargame naturally.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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** And on a smaller scale, other RCW operations and escapes, including the Ice March and the evacuation of various allied contingents at the war's end.
* The Battle of Mogadishu, which was the direct basis of the aforementioned ''[[Black Hawk Down]]''.
* [[
* World War II's large-scale airborne invasion Operation Market Garden. It pretty much caused twice the losses to the Allies than the Axis.
* To a (somewhat) lesser degree, the airborne landings during the Battle of Normandy. Due to the transport pilots attempting to avoid anti-aircraft fire (or sometimes failing to avoid it), Allied paratroopers were scattered all over the French countryside, lost and confused. The fact that they were able to rally and improvise (and generally cause masive confusion to the Germans trying to figure out just what the equally confused paratroopers were trying to accomplish), led to the military concept of Little Groups of Paratroopers (LGOPs for short), describing the resulting units as "A bunch of nineteen year olds, poorly supervised, pissed off, armed to the teeth, and vaguely recalling their orders as "Shoot anyone who is dressed differently."" Those troops that managed to link up with Allied forces moving inland from the beaches were able to pass on valuable intel, in addition to delaying German counter-attacks against the beachheads.
* Several of the Wehrmacht's 'moving pocket' operations on the Russian Front.
* The notorious Retreat from Moscow, in 1812.
* During the Boxer Rebellion the foreign residencies in China stood siege for several weeks defended by a coalition of their respective garrisons.
* This is the basis of [[The Thirty-Six Stratagems|the 28th stratagem]]. The consequence is that, should the affected enemy successfully clear your forces and the elements, he will make absolutely positively sure he is not alone the next time he has to deal with you.
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