299 Days Quotes

“The third phase is conventional war. Once the enemy is weakened from the first two phases, the revolutionaries have enough strength, at least relative to the weakened current government, to fight large-scale battles and thereby take, and hold, territory.”
― Glen Tate, 299 Days: The 43 Colonels

“The second phase is guerilla warfare, when insurgents fight the state, but do so through harassment and attacks on the current government’s communications and logistics. The objective is not to win territory, but to weaken the enemy while consolidating the support of the population behind the revolutionary’s cause.”
― Glen Tate, 299 Days: The 43 Colonels

“The first phase is political work. This is when revolutionaries work among the general population to win them over and build a base from which to operate.”
― Glen Tate, 299 Days: The 43 Colonels

“Chinese dictator Mao Zhe-Tung once observed that all revolutions have three phases. He was right about that.”
― Glen Tate, 299 Days: The 43 Colonels