Mao and Giap on Partisan Warfare
Absztrakt :
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.
