Discussion
Who among the following compared guerrillas to fish and support from people to water ?
Answer: B
The answer is Mao Tse Tung.
In On Guerrilla Warfare (1937) Mao wrote that the people are like water and the army like fish living in it. The image sums up his doctrine that a guerrilla force survives only with the support, shelter and intelligence of the local population, which is why counter-insurgency later spoke of 'draining the sea'.
Che Guevara wrote his own manual, Guerrilla Warfare (1960), built on the idea of a small armed nucleus (the foco), not on Mao's fish metaphor. Liddell Hart wrote on the indirect approach in conventional war, and David Rapoport is a scholar of terrorism known for his 'four waves' theory.
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