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BASIC TACTICS
(5) A certain quantity of gold coins, to provide for unexpected
needs and for buying food.
8. DISCIPLINE
Whether or not the military discipline of a guerrilla unit is good
influences the reputation of our whole army and its ability to secure
the sympathy and support of the popular masses. Only strict
discipline can assure the complete victory of all our independent
actions. Consequently, our attitude toward those persons who violate
military discipline, harm the people’s interest, and do not reso-
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lutely execute the orders of their superiors, should consist in pun-
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ishing them severely without the slightest regard for politeness.
The application of military discipline in a partisan unit does not
aim exclusively at punishment. Rather, it aims at strengthening
the political instruction of the officers and men and raising their
level of political consciousness, thereby indirectly eliminating a
large number of actions contrary to military discipline and causing
the officers and soldiers to understand the psychology of the
masses, so that at appropriate times they can unite effectively with
the common people.
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9. POLITICAL ORGANIZATION
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(1) Each guerrilla task group and small group should have a political
director, and in the headquarters of the guerrilla unit there
should be a political training department, for directing the political
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work of officers and soldiers and dealing with the human problems
of all the political instructors.
(2) Each mess unit of a guerrilla unit should establish a special
commissioner in order to guard against the infiltration and activity
of reactionary elements and to encourage those soldiers without clear
ideological consciousness who are wavering in their purposes.
(3) In order to prevent desertion by the soldiers, a committee
against desertion, as well as “groups of ten,” should be organized in
each guerrilla unit. The groups of ten and the committee against
desertion are negative methods for preventing desertion. Their organization
and work should be carried out roughly as follows:
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