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On Guerrilla Warfare

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Description for On Guerrilla Warfare Paperback. One of the most influential documents of our time, Mao Tse-tung's pamphlet on guerrilla warfare has become the basic textbook for waging revolution in underdeveloped and emergent areas throughout the world. This book analyzes the nature and conduct of guerrilla warfare, and considers its implications for American policy. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: JWDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 210 x 10. Weight in Grams: 166.

One of the most influential documents of our time, Mao Tse-tung's pamphlet on guerrilla warfare has become the basic textbook for waging revolution in underdeveloped and emergent areas throughout the world.

Recognizing the fundamental disparity between agrarian and urban societies, Mao advocated unorthodox strategies that converted deficits into advantages: using intelligence provided by the sympathetic peasant population; substituting deception, mobility, and surprise for superior firepower; using retreat as an offensive move; and educating the inhabitants on the ideological basis of the struggle. This radical new approach to warfare, waged in jungles and mountains by mobile guerrilla bands closely ... Read more

Mao wrote On Guerrilla Warfare in 1937 while in retreat after ten years of battling the Nationalist army of Chiang Kai-shek. Twelve years later, the Nationalist Chinese were rousted from the mainland, and Mao consolidated his control of a new nation, having put his theories of revolutionary guerrilla warfare to the test.

Established governments have slowly come to recognize the need to understand and devise means to counter this new method of warfare. Samuel B. Griffith's classic translation makes Mao's treatise widely available and includes a comprehensive introduction that profiles Mao, analyzes the nature and conduct of guerrilla warfare, and considers its implications for American policy.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252068928
SKU
V9780252068928
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99-10

About Mao Tse-Tung
Samuel B. Griffith IIrose to the rank of Brigadier General (U.S.M.C.), retiring in 1956 after serving on the staff of the U.S. Commander in Chief, Europe. He earned a Ph.D. in Chinese military history from Oxford in 1961. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he served in Nicaragua, China, Cuba, and England prior to World War II. Wounded at ... Read more

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