Basic characteristics of people's war

1. The people's war has two basic characteristics.

1, the justice of war, the people's war is a just war, it serves the general public and takes the interests of the general public as the starting point.

2. This is the quality of war; In other words, the main body of the people's war is the people.

Second, the definition of nature.

The people's war is a war to organize and arm the broad masses of the people in order to seek class liberation or resist foreign aggression. It conforms to the fundamental interests of the oppressed class and the oppressed nation and is the driving force to promote the development of human history. The people's war under the leadership of the proletariat and its political party is a people's war with the broadest mass base. With the people's army as the backbone and relying on the broad masses of the people, we should establish rural revolutionary base areas and carry out the idea of people's war.

Three. Introduction of basic content

As a military thought, the content of people's war should be divided into two parts: military philosophy and military practice. Expounded from military philosophy; The fundamental reason of people's war and the highest principle guiding people's war are "justice" of war, "mass participation" of war and "integrity" of war practice. As for the content of military practice, it is to implement these ideas as the basic principles and principles of war guidance, army building and national defense construction. In fact, all wars have a certain degree of justice and mass. People's war is different from other wars, such as armed uprising, people's uprising and rebellion or terrorist activities, and it is only a form of struggle in the way of people's participation and practice.