在长期指挥中国革命战争的实践中，毛泽东充分吸收我国传统军事战略战术思想，为我军制定了一整套指导人民战争的军事战略战术。在军事战略方面，毛泽东批判吸收“知己知彼，百战不殆”“避其锐气，击其惰归”“攻坚则韧，乘暇则神”和中国古代农民战争方略等我国若干传统军事战略思想，提出了一整套关于研究战争的方法论、积极防御理论、持久战理论、“先打弱的，后打强的，你打你的，我打我的”战略方针、农村包围城市等军事战略理论。在军事战术方面，毛泽东在批判吸收我国古代游击战术的基础上提出“十六字诀”游击战术原则，并在军事史上第一次把游击战从战术层面提高到战略层面考察；在批判吸收我国古代集中兵力战术的基础上提出“集中优势兵力，各个歼灭敌人”的战术原则，并进一步论述了应该根据战争的具体形势决定集中兵力作战还是分散兵力作战、打歼灭战还是击溃战；同时还继承并创造性地运用声东击西、围魏救赵、空城计、五瓣莲花抄尾阵等我国古代其他军事战术战法。毛泽东能够成功继承并超越中国传统军事战略战术是有深刻原因的。外国资本主义的入侵和资本主义生产关系在中国的发展给中国革命战争提出了全新的课题和要求，马克思列宁主义的传入又给中国先进知识分子提供了认识和解决关乎国家命运的战争问题的全新世界观和方法论。在这样的背景下，以毛泽东同志为代表的老一辈无产阶级军事家，根据近代中国社会的新要素、结合近代中国革命的新要求、抓住近代中国战争的新动力，始终坚持在辩证唯物主义的科学方法指导下吸取我国传统军事战略战术思想精华，并根据革命战争的现实条件赋予这些传统战略战术新鲜内容，从而创造性地提出了许多关于指导战争的新原则、新方法；始终坚持用历史唯物主义的观点认识军事问题，坚持站在人民立场上制定和运用军事战略战术，超出了只依靠军队作战的传统军事局限，找到了军事战争中的全新依靠力量即广大人民群众，并创立了以此为出发点的一整套军事战略战术，从而把我国传统军事战略战术推进到了历史上不曾达到的全新高度，成功实现我国传统军事战略战术的创造性转化和创新性发展；始终坚持无产阶级及其政党对军队的绝对领导，高度重视人民军队的政治工作建设，并根据进行人民战争的实际需要建立了“三结合”的人民武装力量体系，从而在半殖民地半封建的中国旧社会里成功锻造出一支真正能够执行新型人民战略战术的威武之师。
In the practice of commanding China‘s revolutionary war for a long time, Mao-Zedong fully absorbed China‘s traditional military strategical and tactical theory and formulated a complete set of military strategies and tactics for our army to guide the people‘s war. In terms of military strategy, Mao -Zedong criticized and absorbed a number of traditional Chinese military strategic ideas, such as " knowing oneself and knowing the other will not be lost " "avoiding its sharp spirit, striking at its laziness," "attacking the tough is tenacious, taking advantage of the is easy" and China‘s ancient peasant war strategy. Based on these, Mao-Zedong put forward a whole set of military strategic theories on the methodology for studying war, the theory of active defense, the theory of protracted war, the strategic principle of "fighting the weak first, then the strong, you hit yours, I will fight mine" and the encirclement of cities in rural areas. In terms of military tactics, Mao-Zedong put forward the principle of "16 Character Tips" guerrilla tactics on the basis of criticizing and absorbing China‘s ancient guerrilla tactics, and for the first time in military history, he raised guerrilla warfare from the tactical level to the strategic level; On the basis of criticizing and absorbing China‘s ancient tactics of concentrating troops, he put forward the tactical principle of "concentrating superior forces and annihilating the enemy individually", and further discussed whether to concentrate troops or disperse troops to fight, whether to fight a war of annihilation or defeat according to the specific requirements of the war situation; At the same time, he also inherited and creatively used other ancient military and tactical tactics in China, such as sounding east to attack the west, encircling Wei and saving Zhao, empty city planning, and five-petal lotus tail formation.There are profound reasons why Mao-Zedong successfully inherited and surpassed traditional Chinese military strategies and tactics. The invasion of foreign capitalism and the development of capitalist production relations in China had put forward brand-new topics and requirements for China‘s revolutionary war, and the introduction of Marxism-Leninism had provided China‘s advanced intellectuals with a brand-new worldview and methodology for understanding and solving war problems related to the fate of the country. Against this background, the older generation of proletarian military strategists, represented by Comrade Mao-Zedong, according to the new elements of modern Chinese society and the new requirements of the modern Chinese revolution, grasping the new impetus of modern Chinese war, had always insisted on absorbing the essence of China‘s traditional military strategy and tactical thinking under the guidance of the scientific method of dialectical materialism, and given these traditional strategic and tactical contents fresh according to the actual conditions of revolutionary war, thus creatively putting forward many new principles and methods for guiding war; had always persisted in understanding military issues from the viewpoint of historical materialism, persisted in formulating and applying military strategies and tactics from the standpoint of the people, gone beyond the traditional military limitations of relying only on the army to fight in ancient times, found a brand-new force to rely on in military warfare, that is, the broad masses of the people, and created a complete set of strategies and tactics based on this, thus advancing China‘s traditional military strategy and tactics to a completely new height that had never been reached in history, and successfully realizing the creative transformation and innovative development of China‘s traditional military strategy and tactics; had always adhered to the absolute leadership of the proletariat and its party over the armed forces, attached great importance to the building of the political work of the people‘s army, and established a "three-in-one" armed forces system in accordance with the actual needs of people‘s war, thus successfully forged a mighty division that could truly implement a new type of people‘s strategy and tactics out of the old society of semi-colonial and semi-feudal China.
