In Resistance, he cautioned that the timing of the transition from one of Mao’s phases to the next could not be determined in advance; it depended on the relative strength of revolutionary forces, the degree of support for the insurgency in the general population, and the extent of demoralization among enemy forces. The struggle would certainly be long and difficult and would require maintaining solidarity with the Cambodian and Lao peoples and indeed with all those who suffered under the French Union.
