This sentence comes from Mao Zedong's work On Protracted War

On Protracted War is a draft of Mao Zedong's speech at the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression Research Association in Yan 'an from May 26th to June 3rd, 1938, which is a military and political work about China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression policy.

on the basis of summing up War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's early experience, Mao Zedong systematically expounded China's strategy of waging a protracted war to win against, in view of some people in China Kuomintang's "China will die" and "China will win quickly" and some people in China's * * * production party's tendency to despise guerrilla warfare.

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On protracted war is a speech made by Mao Zedong at the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression Research Association in Yan 'an from May 26th to June 3rd, 1938. This is a great classic military theory work of Marxism-Leninism, and is regarded as one of the top ten military masterpieces in the world.

On Protracted War has written 21 questions, the first nine of which are the first part, mainly explaining why War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression is a protracted war and why the final victory is China's, criticizing the theory of national subjugation and the theory of quick victory; The last twelve questions are the second part, mainly explaining how to carry out a protracted war and how to win the final victory, focusing on the people's war and its strategy and tactics.

In the glorious book On Protracted War, Mao Zedong used the standpoint, viewpoint and method of dialectical materialism to make an incisive exposition on the fundamental issues of war, formulated the correct line, principles, policies and strategies and tactics to guide War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and proved its impeccable correctness. It can be used to guide modern local wars against aggression and stand the test of practice.

It has not only become a scientific military theory guiding War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression at home, but also has extremely high academic value in the history of military art in the world. For example, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger admired Mao Zedong's On Protracted War.

In his book Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy, he wrote: "The best exposition of Chairman Mao's military thought is not found in the works of the Soviet Union, but in the works of China."

1. Formulated the correct line, principles, policies and strategies and tactics for guiding War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's people's war.

Second, objectively evaluated the situation of the war, which inspired the people of China.

Third, resist the ideological trend of "national subjugation theory" and "quick victory theory" existing in China, and establish and consolidate the anti-Japanese national united front.

fourth, direct modern local wars against aggression and stand the test of practice.

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