Mao is a good place to start, essentially, the power of the proleatriat is in its politcal will to survive. historically, the PLA would go on nightime raids,waiting to load their rifles until the 10-20 yard line, and try to overwhelm enemy forces when there was a disturbance in their watch (machine gun switching firing zones, swapping watchmen, etc…)
they would wait silently sometimes for an hour with a grenade held ready to throw into the enemy line. the utter confusion of the enemy was the main advantage of the pla, they needed no commands from leadership react to an evolvig on the ground situation. the way they were able to do these on the ground tatics so effectively came in 2 parts
1. The authority of junior commanders to take initiative, and even lowest level fighters able to start the assult when they recognized a key moment of weakness.
2. the discipline of the individual fighter.
this discipline is what prevented him from firing off all 5 of his alloted bullets for the raid unless they were effective.
How do you build a disciplined fighter? essetially, brainwashing. The viet minh are documented to essentially have big parties in the village where dedicated politcal officials told sob stories about french occupation: after a few weeks of doing this in their local area, they had their army. think of how that applies to americans, the punk scene for example is filled with young rebelious folk needing a direction. find out how to host parties with live music and food, give speeches at the beginning middle and end highlighting injustice in their community and especilly have comrades in the crowd to both stir up sentiment and directly pipeline potential recruits. start with small things: who will go tagging? who wants to help at the local food not bombs, keep them fun, and alligned, and healthy. at the end of the day your most effective fighters are most effective because they are fighting for and alongside friends.
once people have been developed, decide which role they might fit best as a junior officer; are they ideologically dedicated, a good speaker, and someone people find trustworthy? they are best for politcal officer.
Are they daring, analytical or just a plain good fighter? they can be a military officer.
The way the PLA ran back in the day was to force command down to the lowest possible rank, and since the working class should be ideologically commited to the same goals, they will be
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