Mao Tse-Tung And Operational Art During The Chinese Civil War
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The initial portion of the monograph discusses the areas of military strategy and the development of operational art. This area was developed using contemporary monographs, research projects, and professional journal articles. Professional military journals such as Parameters and Military Review publish relevant articles covering these subjects on a recurring basis. The majority of the information covering Mao’s thoughts and writings were drawn from The Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung published in Beijing, China by the Foreign Languages Press.
The section dealing with the essence of operational art was developed primarily from James Schneider’s theoretical paper; Vulcan’s Anvil: The American Civil War and the Emergence of Operational Art. In this paper Schneider identifies, defines, and argues that eight key attributes must exist for the fullest expression of operational art to be manifested. These eight attributes are; the distributed operation, the distributed campaign, a system of continuous logistics, instantaneous command and control, the operationally durable formation, operational vision, the distributed enemy, and distributed deployment. This monograph uses Schneider’s eight key attributes of operational art as a measure of effectiveness for evaluating the use of operational art during the Chinese Civil War.
This monograph concludes that while Mao Tse-Tung was one-step removed from the operational level of war, the commanders of the Red Army, guided by his theory of protracted war and his controlling strategy, successfully applied operational art to decisively defeat a larger, better equipped, and trained military force in a sequential series of battles and engagements.
Major Thomas P. Reilly
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Mao Tse-Tung And Operational Art During The Chinese Civil War - Major Thomas P. Reilly
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MAO TSE-TUNG AND OPERATIONAL ART DURING THE CHINESE CIVIL WAR
by
Major Thomas P. Reilly, USA
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS 4
ABSTRACT 5
SECTION I—INTRODUCTION 6
SECTION II—THE THEORY OF OPERATIONAL ART 9
SECTION III—THE CHINESE CIVIL WAR, 1945-1949 20
SECTION IV—OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE CHINESE CIVIL WAR 26
SECTION V—THE EXPRESSION OF OPERATIONAL ART 32
SECTION VI—CONCLUSIONS 36
REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 39
BIBLIOGRAPHY: 40
BOOKS 40
MONOGRAPHS AND RESEARCH STUDIES 41
MILITARY MANUALS 42
PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE, PERIODICALS, AND MAGAZINES 42
ABSTRACT
This monograph examines the nature of operational art during the third and final phase of the Chinese Civil War, 1945-1949. During this period Mao Tse-Tung and the Red Army fought Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Army for the military and political control of China.
The initial portion of the monograph discusses the areas of military strategy and the development of operational art. This area was developed using contemporary monographs, research projects, and professional journal articles. Professional military journals such as Parameters and Military Review publish relevant articles covering these subjects on a recurring basis. The majority of the information covering Mao’s thoughts and writings were drawn from The Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung published in Beijing, China by the Foreign Languages Press.
The section dealing with the essence of operational art was developed primarily from James Schneider’s theoretical paper; Vulcan’s Anvil: The American Civil War and the Emergence of Operational Art. In this paper Schneider identifies, defines, and argues that eight key attributes must exist for the fullest expression of operational art to be manifested. These eight attributes are; the distributed operation, the distributed campaign, a system of continuous logistics, instantaneous command and control, the operationally durable formation, operational vision, the distributed enemy, and distributed deployment. This monograph uses Schneider’s eight key attributes of operational art as a measure of effectiveness for evaluating the use of operational art during the Chinese Civil War.
This monograph concludes that while Mao Tse-Tung was one-step removed from the operational level of war, the commanders of the Red Army, guided by his theory of protracted war and his controlling strategy, successfully applied operational art to decisively defeat a larger, better equipped, and trained military force in a sequential series of battles and engagements.
SECTION I—INTRODUCTION
Wisdom prevails over strength, knowledge over brute force; for wars are won by skillful strategy, and victory is the fruit of long planning.
—Bible: Proverbs{1}
The triumphant entry of the Communists into Peking in 1949 effectively marked the end of this twenty-eight year revolutionary political and military period. Between 1921 and 1949 a titanic struggle occurred within the great land mass known as China. The results were to have immediate and long-term effects on the course of world events. This campaign for control of China occurred in three overlapping phases. The first phase; a period of predominate internal conflict, occurred between 1921 and 1936. The two primary opponents were the leaders of the Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang (KMT); and the leaders of the fledgling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The second phase; a time of uncooperative national unity, began in 1936 and lasted until 1945. The final phase, an internal civil war to determine the future of China, occurred between 1945 and 1949.
The period of internal strife between the ruling KMT and the growing CCP began in 1921. The Chinese Communist movement developed into two ideological segments. The Leninists, who favored urban revolution in keeping with conventional Marxist-Leninist theory and Mao Tse-Tung and his growing band of followers, who argued for basing the foundation of the revolution