On Guerrilla Warfare (United States Marine Corps translation)
Mao Tse-tung
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Guerrilla Warfare
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U.S. Marine Corps
5 April 1989
FOREWORD
1. PURPOSE
Fleet Marine Force Reference Publication (FMFRP) 12-18, Mao Tse-tung on Guerrilla Warfare, is published to ensure the retention and dissemination of useful information which is not intended to become doctrine or to be published in Fleet Marine Force manuals. FMFRPs in the 12 Series are a special category of publications: reprints of historical works which were published commercially and are no longer in print.
2. SCOPE
This reference publication is Mao Tse-tung's thoughts and philosophy of guerrilla warfare. It gives the reader a chance to learn about this type of warfare from one who lived and fought as a guerrilla for most of his adult life. It is important to understand his philosophy of guerrilla warfare because it is the basis of today's guerrilla forces. The book was translated and published with an introduction by Samuel B. Griffith, Brigadier General, USMC (Ret.), in 1961.
3. CERTIFICATION
Reviewed and approved this date.
BY DIRECTION OF THE COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS
M. P. SULLIVAN
Major General, U.S. Marine Corps
Deputy Commander for Warfighting
Marine Corps Combat Development Command
Quantico, Virginia
Mao Tse-tung on Guerrilla Warfare translated, with an introduction by Brigadier General Samuel B. Griffith, USMC (Retired). Reprinted with permission of Mrs. Belle Gordon Nelson Griffith.
Introduction
Yu Chi Chan (Guerrilla Warfare)
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
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