<p>2017 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.&nbsp; 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>