Mobile Warfare

Mobile warfare(Chinese:Vận động chiến;pinyin:yùndòngzhàn) is a military strategy of thePeople’s Republic of Chinaemployingconventional forceson fluid fronts with units maneuvering to exploit opportunities for tactical surprise, or where a local superiority of forces can be realized. One of early CCP leaderMao Zedong's three forms of warfare (Chinese:Chiến tranh hình thức;pinyin:zhànzhēng xíngshì), mobile warfare was the primary form of warfare used byChinese communist forcesfrom the early 1930s to the conclusion of theChinese Civil War.^[1]The other two forms of warfare that Mao defined inOn Protracted War,guerrilla warfare(Du kích chiến;yóujīzhàn) and positional warfare (Trận địa chiến;zhèndìzhàn), were less frequently employed.^[1]

The most notable example of Chinese mobile warfare was theLong March,a massive military retreat in which Mao marched in circles inGuizhouuntil he had confused the vastly larger armies pursuing him, and was then able to slip throughYunnanandSichuan,although the retreat was completed by only one-tenth of the force that left for the Long March at Jiangxi.

The ChinesePeople's Volunteer Army's first five campaigns in theKorean Warwere characterized by a strategy of mobile warfare, in which the PVA encircled the enemy through maneuvers and sought to annihilate the enemy. Then it entered a stage of positional warfare, when both the PVA andUNforces fought to a stalemate along the38th parallel north.^{[citation needed]}

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^^a ^bFravel, M. Taylor (2019-04-23).Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949.Princeton University Press.ISBN 978-0-691-18559-0.

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Seeking Truth From Facts:RAND 1991, page 136. The book is mostly about post-Mao developments within the Chinese military.
various English-language sources using the phrase

[:0-1] Fravel, M. Taylor (2019-04-23).Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949.Princeton University Press.ISBN 978-0-691-18559-0.

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