Mao Tse-tung on Guerrilla Warfare
of Chiang Kai-shek." However, he did not do so, because at that time both sides were attempting to preserve the illusion of a "united front." "Our basic policy," he said, "is the creation of a national united anti-Japanese front." This was, of course, not the basic policy of the Chinese Communist Party then, or at any other time. Its basic policy was to seize state power; the type of revolutionary guerrilla war described by Mao was the basic weapon in the protracted and ultimately successful process of doing so.
Samuel B. Griffith
Brigadier General, USMC (Ret.)
Mount Vernon, Maine
]uly, 1961
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