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BASIC TACTICS
4. DEFINITION OF GUERRILLA WARFARE
When it is not advantageous for our main land army to meet the
enemy in large-scale engagements and we, therefore, “send” out commando
units or guerrilla units, which employ the tactics of avoiding
strength and striking at weakness, of flitting about and having no
fixed position, and of subduing the enemy according to circumstances,
and when we do not oppose the enemy according to the ordinary
rules of tactics, this is called employing guerrilla tactics.
FROM MARX
CHAPTER II
TO MAO
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TACTICS
At a time when our country’s national defense preparation are
not completed, and when our weapons are inferior to the excellent
equipment with which the enemy has provided himself, we must
observe the following principles whenever we wish to wage a battle
with the enemy:
NOT FOR
COMMERCIAL
1. PRECAUTIONS WHEN ON THE MARCH
When we are on the march, we must send plainclothes units
armed with pistols ahead of our vanguard, behind our rear guard,
and to the side of our lateral defenses, in order to spy out the situation
and to forestall DISTRIBUTION
unexpected attacks by the enemy, or superfluous
clashes.
2. PRECAUTIONS DURING HALTS
When we encamp, if there is a presumption that the enemy may
be near, we should send every day a guerrilla company — or at least
a platoon — toward the enemy’s defenses to carry out reconnaissance
at a distance (from 20 to 30 li) or to join up with the local
forces and carry out propaganda among the masses, in order to in-
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