Patience would be his main weapon as he plotted for a protracted war based roughly on Mao’s three-phase model of withdrawal (from major towns and cities), equilibrium, and general offensive. Already on December 22, 1946, a mere three days into the fighting, the DRV issued a proclamation stating that the war would be fought along these lines.8 The declaration was drafted by theoretician Truong Chinh, who elaborated on the essentials of this Maoist strategy in a publication titled The Resistance Will Win, which appeared in February 1947.
