Mao Tse-Tung on Guerrilla Warfare translated by Samuel B. Griffith

Mao Tse-Tung on Guerrilla Warfare translated by Samuel B. Griffith is probably one of the two or three key texts on creating an insurgency and how to fight it from the perspective of guerrillas or partisans. Most of the famous quotations are here. The insurgents being fishes in in an ocean. The book was written during the Japanese invasion but it can be easily seen where the same tactics and strategy could be used against a terrestrial government. Unfortunately apparently some of the charts were missing from the untranslated original. The translator points this out. There is also an excellent introduction written by Griffith.

A must-have on any insurgency or counterinsurgency bookshelf.

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