by Mao Tse-tung, Samuel B Griffith
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 Mao's Handbook on Insurgency, 2008-03-17
A must reading for counterinsurgency. Although, some of the material are only relevant to historians such as the appendices with the table of military organizations, the first three are good background on why the Chinese insurgency was successful. As always, take this book with a grain of salt and with readings on the issue, the period, and Mao. This is a book written by a premier communist; many truths were mixed with falsehoods. Although Mao said that the people were not to be compelled to support the insurgency, history has shown that fear was a main weapon of many insurgency including the Chinese one.
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 Between Mao, Charles Manson, and Jeffrey Dahmer...Mao is the worst., 2007-12-30
Whoooooo, his evil must be the main point in any book about Mao. Sure, he might have been a military strategist of high caliber, but he was one evil dude.
PS - Look at how Mao lovers are going to tag this with negative votes. Go to Jung Chang's Mao to get a really great example of Chinese democracy in action.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
A Profound Work , 2007-07-21
Looking at the other reviews on this book, many complain that it is a simple, out-dated work, with few insights provided. I see this book as being written with the goal of a general educating his soldiers. Short this book creates the structure of how the general want's to see guerrilla units created (this book focusses only on guerrilla warfare). The reason that there is no complex indepth writting in this book is that it would limit the officers' ability to use their imagination to create fully functioning guerrilla units. Leaving the flesh off, forces the leaders to adapt to their specific area of operations putting the flesh on the structure themselves. There is a lot to be drawn out of this book, and to only skim or read it once is doing the reader doing himself/herself a diservice. I bet that Bin Laden has read this book more than once, now if we can only get our politicians to read it once.
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The Beginner's Guide to Understanding Guerilla Warfare, 2007-06-04
Mao Zedong's, On Guerilla Warfare, is an excellent beginner's guide to understanding guerilla in all its aspects. It is clearly written and very easy to understand from a layman's point of view. Several important lessons can be easily gleaned from the text (like how support of the people is all important). In addition, it is a short book that can be read in a day or two. Rarely such books on warfare are brief as this one (except for Sun Tzu's Art of War).
This book should be required reading for any military officer now serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. In spite of its implied communist overtones, the lessons gleaned from On Guerilla Warfare are completely applicable to the wars of today.
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 A How Too Book, 2007-04-04
A manual on how to change the world by a man that did. Gives insight into Mao's thinking.
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