Mobile Warfare

A form of combat which can be classified within regular warfare. In his article “On Protracted War”, Mao Zedong pointed out that mobile warfare is the form in which regular armies wage quick-decision offensive campaigns and battles on exterior lines along extensive fronts and within big areas of operation. At the same time, it also includes "mobile defense", which is conducted when necessary to facilitate such offensive battles, as well as positional attack and positional defense in a supplementary role. It is characterized by regular armies, superiority of forces in campaigns and battles, offensiveness and mobility.

The People's Army adopted the form of mobile warfare, advancing and retreating in large strides, concentrating and dispersing rapidly on a wide battlefield and on a shifting front, thus facilitating the mobilization of the enemy, causing them to break away from their strong positions and became in motion or temporarily stationed, fully exposing its weaknesses. At the same time, it was also conducive to give full play to its strengths, in the more favorable conditions of personnel, terrain conditions, seize the opportunity to launch a surprise attack on the enemy, in order to most effectively use the “concentration of superior forces, each to destroy the enemy” method of combat, and to achieve the effect of quick decision and complete annihilation.