Re:The Tipping Point: How France Changed the Tides of the Am...
by hef19898 on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @05:08AM
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Considering how much suppory the Chinese gave to North Vietnam, I assume he knew how important support from third parties is.
Re:The Tipping Point: How France Changed the Tides of the Am...
by Nomentatus on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @07:47PM
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Indeed, he'd had plenty himself from the USSR.
Re:The Tipping Point: How France Changed the Tides of the Am...
by Nomentatus on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @07:55PM
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Mao received oodles of support from the USSR, the Long March was the Reds fleeing northward to where they could still get that support, and then being able to punch further East.
The KMT was also a revolutionary force (against foreign domination), and initially preferred by Moscow for practical reasons - the USSR would at that time only support a joint command.
Mao became leader of the Reds because USSR's contact defected to Mao from the previous general so the money etc had to go to Mao, the only point of contact the USSR then had with the Reds.
Post WWII Soviet support, esp military material support became very large indeed, allowing the Reds to crush the KMT.
Mao spent plenty of time and effort downplaying everything the USSR had done for him and in massive spats with the USSR, for his own political reasons. Just as Lenin didn't credit the massive support the Germans had given him, to undermine the Czar.
Not true. Show me where in "On Guerrilla Warfare" Zedong - an expert on the American and French Revolutions - claims that guerrilla warfare requires external support.
Guerrilla warfare requires the support of the population (pretty much all US IW joint doctrine highlights this).
Economic power facilitates guerrilla warfare, along with the transition to traditional warfare, but it isn't a requirement.
> Washington had to keep British costs high while not losing, he couldn't just sit.
The only thing Washington had to do was survive.