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Mao and Giap on Partisan Warfare

Author(s) -

Forgács Balázs

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

academic and applied research in military and public management science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2786-0744

pISSN - 2498-5392

DOI - 10.32565/aarms.2019.2.3

Subject(s) - guerrilla warfare , scholarship , citizen journalism , political science , vietnamese , determinative , law , politics , philosophy , linguistics

According to Liddell Hart: “He [Mao] progressively developed his guerrillas into regular forces, while exploiting a combination of the two forms of warfare.” [1: 363] Mao Tse-tung is considered to be one of the most determinative of all guerrilla warfare2 theoreticians, whose works and ideas in the field of military science had a great impact on irregular warfare during the Cold War and they still continue to do so nowadays. One of the most famous followers of the Chinese revolutionary was Vo Nguyen Giap, under whose military leadership the Vietnamese defeated both the French and the Americans. Based on primary resources, this essay summarises the most significant ideas on guerrilla/partisan warfare by the two military theoreticians. This essay was supported by the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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