Status Updates From Mao Tse-tung on Guerrilla W...

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"Conservation of one's own strength; destruction of enemy strength." A military policy based on this axiom is consonant with a national policy directed towards the building of a free and prosperous Chinese state and the destruction of Japanese imperialism. It is the furtherance of this policy that government applies its military strength.

When Guerrillas engage a stronger enemy, they withdraw when he advances, harass him when he stops, strike him when he is weary, pursue him when he withdraws. In Guerrilla strategy, the enemy’s rear, flanks, and other vulnerable spots are his vital points, and there he must be harassed, attacked, dispersed, exhausted, and annihilated.

In guerrilla warfare, select the tactic of seeming to come from the East and attack from the West. Avoid the solid, attack the hollow. Attack, withdraw, deliver a lightning blow. Seek a lightning decision.

Guerrilla strategy must be based primarily on alertness, mobility, and attack. It must be adjusted to the enemy situation, the terrain, the existing lines of communication, the relative strengths, the weather, and the situation of the people.

“Evil does not exist in guerrilla warfare but only in the unorganized and undisciplined activities that are Anarchism” said Lenin, in “On Guerilla Warfare.”

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A resistance is characterized by the quality of spontaneity: it begins, and then is organized. A revolutionary guerrilla movement is organized, and then begins. A resistance is rarely liquidated and terminates when the invader is ejected. A revolutionary movement is terminated only when it has succeeded in displacing the incumbent government, or is liquidated.

The first step starts in the public consciousness. “The moment that this war of resistance dissociates itself from the masses of the people is the precise moment that it dissociates itself from hope of ultimate victory.”