On the"Two Combinations"and the Formation of Mao Zedong's Military Dialectics Thought
Mao Zedong's military dialectical thought was a significant achievement and a brilliant example of the"two combinations"approach explored and realized by the Chinese Communists,with Comrade Mao Zedong as their chief representative.Mao Zedong combined Marxism with the practical realities of China's revolutionary war,uncovering its nature,identifying its driving forces and expounding its principles,which addressed a series of practical problems related to the war.Guided by the Marxist perspective and methodology on the war,Mao and his colleagues thoroughly absorbed the essence of traditional Chinese military theory.They combined Marxism with the essence of Chinese military culture and systematically discussed the dialectics of advance and retreat,gains and losses of soldiers and land in active defense,the dialectics of protracted defense on interior lines strategy and offense of quick decision on exterior lines tactic in the War of Resistance Against Japan,and the dialectics of concentration and dispersion in military command as well as the transformation of strength and weakness.Their work enriched China's military strategy and achieved both the inheritance and transcendence of traditional Chinese military thought.
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