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The Good Officer: Definition and Training

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

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Mao Tse-tung, the Marxist, may believe in the “objective” and “inevitable” forces of history, but Mao, the politician, general and revolutionary has argued that Communist success depends on the “subjective factor of ability of direction.” This article analyses the variation in the Chinese Communist definition of good military leadership and the relationship between this definition and officer training programmes.

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Chinese Military Affairs
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1964

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