Summary
The Vietnamese general whose People’s War, People’s Army (Foreign Languages Publishing House, Hanoi, 1961) the PFLP’s Strategy quotes at length as authority for protracted people’s war against a technologically superior enemy (Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine, PDF p.99-100).
Details
- Giap is quoted: the Vietnamese people’s war of liberation had to be a hard and long-lasting war; conceptions born of impatience aimed at speedy victory could only be gross errors; it was necessary to grasp the strategy of long-term resistance, maintain and gradually augment one’s forces while nibbling at and progressively destroying the enemy’s, and accumulate thousands of small victories into great success, transforming weakness into power (Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine, PDF p.99).
- Giap is quoted: an insufficiently equipped people’s army fighting for a just cause can, with appropriate strategy and tactics, conquer a modern army of aggressive imperialism, and victory is possible only by uniting the whole people within a firm and wide national united front based on the worker-peasant alliance (PDF p.99-100).
Related pages
Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine, People’s Liberation War, Mao Zedong