GREEN LAKE FAMILY ENCAMPMENT

Basic Tactics. [Reprint]

Reprint From: http://chairmanmaozedong.org/article/273.html

(1937)

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
1. HOW THE POPULAR MASSES CARRY OUT MILITARY ACTION.

How is it that the bare-handed masses, banded together in ill-armed military units without guns or bullets, are able to charge the enemy, kill the enemy, and resolutely carry out effective action in the war? This is a very widespread and very reasonable query. But if we know the function of the weapons used by an army and the aim of an army’s action, we can then understand how our popular masses, although bare-handed, still have weapons and can engage in action to subdue the enemy.

The principal function of an army’s weapons is simply to kill the enemy, and an army’s final aim is simply to reduce or destroy the enemy’s fighting strength. Well, in our daily life, is there any object that cannot be used to kill the enemy or any type of action that cannot reduce or destroy his fighting strength? For example, a kitchen knife, a wooden cudgel, an axe, a hoe, a wooden stool, or a stone can all be used to kill people. Such actions as cutting electric lines, destroying bridges, starting rumors, spreading poison, or cutting off supplies can everywhere inconvenience the enemy or reduce his fighting strength. All these are methods we may be unwilling to utilize or unable to employ. If we really want to kill and exterminate the enemy, there are weapons for us everywhere and work… Read the rest

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You always need angels and psalm 34

Psalm 34 reads as follows from the NIV version of the Bible

1 I will extol the LORD at all times; 
his praise will always be on my lips.

2 My soul will boast in the LORD; 
let the afflicted hear and rejoice.

3 Glorify the LORD with me; 
let us exalt his name together.

4 I sought the LORD, and he answered me; 
he delivered me from all my fears.

5 Those who look to him are radiant; 
their faces are never covered with shame.

6 This poor man called, and the LORD heard him; 
he saved him out of all his troubles.

7 The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, 
and he delivers them.

8 Taste and see that the LORD is good; 
blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

9 Fear the LORD, you his saints, 
for those who fear him lack nothing.

10 The lions may grow weak and hungry, 
but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

11 Come, my children, listen to me; 
I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

12 Whoever of you loves life 
and desires to see many good days,

13 keep your tongue from evil 
and your lips from speaking lies.

14 Turn from evil and do good; 
seek peace and pursue it.

15 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous 
and his ears are attentive to their cry;

16 the… Read the rest

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