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People's war exploits the few advantages that a small revolutionary movement with broad-based popular support can have against a state with a large, powerful, and well-equipped army. Since a tiny force of a few dozen soldiers would easily be routed in an all-out confrontation with the state, people's war avoids such decisive battles. Instead, it favours the strategy of protracted warfare, with carefully chosen battles that can realistically be won. A revolutionary force conducting people's war starts in a remote area with mountainous or otherwise difficult terrain in which its enemy is weak. It attempts to establish a local stronghold known as a revolutionary base area . As it grows in power, it establishes other revolutionary base areas and spreads its influence through the surrounding countryside, where it may become the governing power and gain popular support through such programmes as land reform. Eventually it may have enough strength to encircle and capture small cities, then larger ones, until finally it seizes power in the entire country.
Within the PLA, the concept of People's War was the basis of strategy against the Japanese and also against a hypothetical Russian invasion of China. The concept of people's war became less important with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the increasing possibility of conflict with the United States over Taiwan. In the 1980s and 1990s the concept of people's war was changed to include more high-technology weaponry.
The idea of people's war was dealt a serious setback in the 1991 Gulf War as the United States demonstrated the ability to destroy Iraqi armies quickly using high technology. This lead to an increasing interest in a revolution in military affairs which emphasizes high technology and information managed. Much of the theoretical effort within the People's Liberation Army in the 1990s has been to attempt to reconcile the concepts of people's war, RMA, and asymmetric warfare.
The United States intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001 and 2003 also influenced views of people's war within the PLA. Although the United States was able to achieve quick victories in both cases, in Afghanistan, the United States relied heavily on local people for ground support and in Iraq the United States received unexpected difficulties with Fedayeen Sadaam using guerrilla tactics. Both situations influenced PLA thinking in that it seemed to demonstrate that technology alone was not sufficient to win wars and that support from local people was not an obsolete concept in modern warfare.
Outside of China, people's wars have been basis of wars started in Peru on May 17, 19801980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. Events January-February January 1- April 1 National steel strike in United Kingdom January 1 Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession creates Victoria of Sweden, Crown Princess over her younger brother January 5 He, and in NepalNepal situated in the Himalayas, is the world's only Hindu kingdom. It is in South Asia, sharing borders with China ( Tibet Autonomous Region) and India. Nepal Adhirajya ( In Detail) (Full size) National motto: "Ja'nani Jan'mabhumis'hchaa Svar'gadapi Gari on February 13February 13 Events Before 1900 1130 Innocent II is voted Pope. 1542 Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery. 1633 Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. 1668 Spain recognizes Portu, 19961996 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. Events January January 5 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone Jan (the Nepalese People's WarNote: This article needs additional contributors badly. If you can research earlier years of the conflict or assist in archiving current events (try Google News for sources), please do so The Nepalese People's War a conflict between Maoist insurgents and).
The Peruvian Maoists at times controlled significant parts of the country, but they were dealt a blow by the arrest of their leader Abimael GuzmánManuel Ruben Abimael Guzman Reynoso (born 3 December, 1934), known also as President Gonzalo is a former professor of philosophy who became the leader of the Communist Party of Peru, a terrorist Maoist movement known also as the Shining Path Sendero Lumin in 1992—an event they, however, consider only a "bend in the road."
In Nepal, too, the Maoists have succeeded in controlling most of the country and recently announced the formation of 100,000 troops into 3 divisions in what they call the "beginning of the strategic offensive". In IndiaThe Republic of India is a large multicultural country in South Asia, with a population of over one billion. The Indian economy is the fourth largest in the world, in terms of purchasing power parity, and is the world's second-fastest growing economy., it is said that Maoists control major areas in the eastern and southern regions, especially in Andhra PradeshAndhra Pradesh a state in South India, lies between 12°41' and 22°N latitude and 77° and 84°40'E longitude. It is bounded by Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Orissa in the north, the Bay of Bengal in the east, Tamil Nadu to the south and Karnataka to the wes and Jharkhand.
It is sometimes claimed that people's wars are also ongoing in the Philippines and Turkey, but evidently those have not yet been very successful.
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