The Art of War - Use of Spies

Topography while important in the Art of War is not critically more important than spies - therefore those that reduce Protracted People's War to topography misunderstand how important intelligence and spies were to Stalin and Mao Zedong in the survival of the Soviet Union and the making of the Chinese Revolution.

"I will force the enemy to take our strength for weakness, and our weakness for strength, and thus will turn his strength into weakness"