Sarah Paine

And what guerrilla forces are operating in the rear of the anime

So that there's no stability or security.

In fact, there isn't even a front line.

It's just so amorphous.

And so what guerrilla forces are supposed to be doing is exterminating small enemy forces, weaken larger ones, attack enemy lines of communications, establish bases, force the enemy to disperse.

But they're doing all of this in quads.

combination with conventional forces, because here it's a thing.

You think about Mao and its guerrillas.

Well, actually, here's what Mao really says.

Regular forces are of primary importance because it is they who alone are capable of producing the decision, like winning the war.

There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a war-winning battle.

The relationship of the two is really important.

Mao also thought that you needed to establish a fire escape if you had a base area.

If it all goes south, where do you go?

And his terminal point of retreat for the Long March was up in Yan'an.

He thought it was important to figure those things out in advance.

Mao also cultivated...

An unprecedented group of allies, never before assembled in Chinese history.

Not only peasants, but women, minorities, youth, intellectuals, enemy army, most creatively.

For cultivating the allegiance of peasants, it wasn't just education and land reform.