It was used by the Chinese communists against the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II, and by the Chinese Soviet Republic in the Chinese Civil War. The term is used by Maoists for their strategy of long-term armed revolutionary struggle.

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Rallying millions upon millions of people round the revolutionary government and expanding our revolutionary war, we shall wipe out all counter-revolution and take over the whole of China. Ibid., p. 150.* The richest source of power to wage war lies in the masses of the people.

Mao not only developed a brilliant hybrid strategy that combines the three strategies of Subversion, enemy depletion, and destruction into a single strategy of protracted people’s war, but also demonstrated how these strategies can be used in …

The “people’s war” that comes into better focus here takes its name from but is rather the opposite of the “voina narodnaia” of song or the all-people’s war (vsenarodnaia voina) Exeler discusses as an ideological construct of war-time recruitment and re-Sovietization.

2003年10月20日 · The People’s War has become the signifying concept for the Second World War. Civilians became combatants on the front line – the entire citizenry and resources of the nation were mobilised for a war in which over 67,500 civilians were killed.

2017年6月2日 · Far from being an anachronism, much less a kit-bag of techniques, people’s war raises what has always been present in military history, guerrilla warfare, and fuses it symbiotically with what has likewise always been present politically, rebellion and the effort to …

2020年8月31日 · THE SECOND WORLD War has often been described as a people’s war. And although it’s a fact that millions were mobilized across entire populations of the countries involved, arguably no nation sacrificed and suffered more in the …

People's war (simplified Chinese: 人民战争; traditional Chinese: 人民戰爭), also called protracted people's war, is a military-political strategy first developed by the Chinese Communist revolutionary and political leader Mao Zedong (1893–1976).

During World War II, child insurgents between the ages of 11 and 18 served as full-fledged members of the Polish Home Army. While they mainly served as messengers and porters, …