Mao Tse-tung

ON PROTRACTED WAR


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

First Edition 1965
Second Printing 1967

Vol. II, pp. 113-94.


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

C O N T E N T S


Statement of the Problem

113

The Basis of the Problem

121

Refutation of the Theory of National Subjugation

124

Compromise or Resistance? Corruption or Progress?

128

The Theory of National Subjugation Is Wrong and the Theory
  of Quick Victory Is Likewise Wrong


132

Why a Protracted War?

134

The Three Stages of the Protracted War

136

A War of Jig-Saw Pattern

145

Fighting for Perpetual Peace

148

Man's Dynamic Role in War

151

War and Politics

152

Political Mobilization for the War of Resistance

154

The Object of War

155

Offense Within Defense, Quick Decisions Within Protracted
  War, Exterior Lines Within Interior Lines


155

Iniative, Flexibility and Planning

161

Mobile Warfare, Guerrilla Warfare and Positional Warfare

170

War of Attrition and War of Annilhilation

174

The Possibilities of Exploiting the Enemy's Mistakes

178

The Question of Decisive Engagements in the Anti-Japanese
  War


180

The Army and the People Are the Foundation of Victory

183

Conclusions

188

NOTES





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