Editing Guerrilla warfare (section)

=== Tactics ===
{{See also|Asymmetric warfare}}
Tactically, guerrillas usually avoid confrontation with large units and formations of enemy troops but seek and attack small groups of enemy personnel and resources to gradually deplete the opposing force while minimizing their own losses. The guerrilla prizes mobility, secrecy, and surprise, organizing in small units and taking [[advantage of terrain]] that is difficult for larger units to use. For example, [[Mao Zedong]] summarized basic guerrilla tactics at the beginning of the [[Chinese Civil War]] as:<blockquote>"The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue."{{sfn|Mao|1965|p=124}} </blockquote>At least one author credits the ancient Chinese work ''[[The Art of War]]'' with inspiring Mao's tactics.{{sfn|McNeilly|2003|pp=6-7}} In the 20th century, other communist leaders, including North Vietnamese [[Ho Chi Minh]], often used and developed guerrilla warfare tactics, which provided a model for their use elsewhere, leading to the Cuban "[[foco]]" theory and the anti-[[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Mujahadeen]] in [[Afghanistan]].{{sfn|McNeilly|2003|p=204}}