Tackling one of the most prevalent myths about insurgencies, this book examines and rebuts the popular belief that Mao Zedong created a fundamentally new form of warfare that transformed the nature of modern insurgency.
Francis Grice is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at McDaniel College, Maryland, USA.
1. Introduction.- 2. What Mao Actually Taught.- 3. The Unoriginal Mao.- 4. Mao and the Chinese Revolutionary Civil War.- 5. The Insignificant Mao.- 6. The Deification of Mao.- 7. Conclusion.