<p>In 1937 Mao was in retreat after ten years of battling the Nationalist troops of Chiang Kai-shek.&nbsp;During this period he wrote a succinct pamphlet that remains one of the most influential documents on warfare to this date.&nbsp;This treatise the first systematic analysis of guerilla warfare established Mao as the architect of a new method of warfare.&nbsp;The treatise is translated and introduced by General Samuel B. Griffith. USMC a leading military strategist of the era. </p>