What is basic guerilla strategy? Guerilla strategy must be based primarily on alertness, mobility, and attack. It must be adjusted to the enemy situation, the terrain, the existing lines of communication, the relative strengths, the weather, and the situation of the people.

When guerillas engage a stronger enemy, they withdraw when he advances, harass him when he stops, strike him when he is weary, pursue him when he withdraws.

There is in guerilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle.

We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports.

The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.

History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust.

As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

The main form of struggle is war; the main form of organization is the army... . Without armed struggle there would be no place for the proletariat, there will be no place for the people, there will be no place for the Communist Party, and there will be no victory in revolution.

Enemy advances, we retreat; enemy halts, we harass; enemy tires, we attack; enemy retreats, we pursue.

War can be abolished only through war; and in order to get rid of the gun, it is necessary to take up the gun.