The document outlines the phases of Mao Zedong's strategy for revolution including setting up base areas, gaining village support, conducting hit-and-run attacks, redistributing land to peasants, and expanding political control from villages to isolate cities, before transitioning guerrilla units into a conventional army to seize cities and defeat opponents.
The document outlines the phases of Mao Zedong's strategy for revolution including setting up base areas, gaining village support, conducting hit-and-run attacks, redistributing land to peasants, and expanding political control from villages to isolate cities, before transitioning guerrilla units into a conventional army to seize cities and defeat opponents.
The document outlines the phases of Mao Zedong's strategy for revolution including setting up base areas, gaining village support, conducting hit-and-run attacks, redistributing land to peasants, and expanding political control from villages to isolate cities, before transitioning guerrilla units into a conventional army to seize cities and defeat opponents.
support from villages • Readiness to retreat - not hold territory • Ambush and hit and run attacks Political • Redistribute land to peasants • Reorganise taxation and • Disorientate the enemy; attacks fragmented units distribution • Protracted warfare. Wait until CCP • Set up base areas • All good taken by army to be has numercial advantage paid for • Spread political ideas from • Open mobile phase - guerrilla village to village • No damage to crops units join to form conventional • Expand political control to • Committees oversee farming, army for final battle to seize cities education and health care isolate the cities and defeat GMD • Committee give peasants military • Purse political opponents training • All decision making under CCP control