Mao Tse-tung

PROBLEMS OF STRATEGY IN
GUERRILLA WAR AGAINST JAPAN


From the
Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung
Foreign Languages Press
Peking 1967

First Edition 1965
Second Printing 1967

Vol. II, pp. 79-112.


Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, [email protected] (June 1997)


C O N T E N T S

Chapter I
Why Raise the Question of Strategy in Guerrilla War?

 
79

Chapter II
The Basic Principle of War is to Preserve Oneself and
Destroy the Enemy


 
81

Chapter III
Six Specific Problems in Guerrilla War Against Japan


82

Chapter IV
Initiative, Flexibility and Planning in Conducting Offensives
  Within the Defensive, Battles of Quick Decision Within
  Protracted War, and Exterior-Line Operations Within
  Interior-Line Operations


 
 
 
83

Chapter V
Co-ordination with Regular Warfare

 
91

Chapter VI
The Establishment of Base Areas

 
93

  1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

The Types of Base Areas
Guerrilla Zones and Base Zones
Conditions for Establishing Base Areas
The Consolidation and Expansion of Base Areas
Forms in Which We and the Enemy Encircle One Another

94
96
98
100
101

Chapter VII
The Strategic Defensive and the Strategic Offensive in
  Guerrilla War


 
102

1.
2.

The Strategic Defensive in Guerrilla War
The Strategic Offensive in Guerrilla War

103
105

Chapter VIII
Development of Guerrilla War into Mobile War

 
107

Chapter IX
The Relationship of Command


109

NOTES

111





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