Mao didn’t invent guerilla warfare, but he did write the book on it. The “16-character formula” sums it up: never stand and fight, just stay in business and wear the enemy down.

Mao Zedong didn’t invent guerrilla warfare, but he did write the book on it. The “sixteen-character formula” sums it up: never stand and fight, just stay in business, and wear the enemy down.

Marxism holds that what is called history is nothing but the creation of man by human labor. In other words, people are the ...

In fact, Hanukkah is one of the earliest examples of guerrilla warfare. We don't know much about the Maccabean Revolt of 167 to 160 BCE. There are really only two sources, and neither is reliable.

“The guerrillas are the fish, and the people are the water,” wrote Mao Zedong, perhaps the greatest guerrilla fighter of the 20th century. This week the U.S. military speared two of the ...

His seminal work, ‘The War of the Flea – Guerrilla Warfare Theory and Practice’ (first published in 1970 by Paladin Frogmore) remains to date, the most authoritative and insightful study on the ...

Guerrilla warfare has a very long pedigree. Sun Tzu, writing in his classic sixth-century treatise The Art of War, advocates guerrilla-style tactics. However, the term itself wasn’t coined until ...