Mao Tse-Tung And Operational Art During The Chinese Civil War

This monograph examines the nature of operational art during the third and final phase of the Chinese Civil War, 1945-1949. During this period Mao Tse-Tung and the Red Army fought Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Army for the military and political control of China.

The initial portion of the monograph discusses the areas of military strategy and the development of operational art. This area was...