Mao TseTung on Guerrilla Warfare Author:Tse-Tung, Mao In 1937, Mao Tse-Tung, in retreat after years of battling the Nationalist troops of Chiang Kai-shek, wrote a pamphlet that has become one of the most influential documents of our time. This treatise, the first systematic analysis of guerilla warfare, established Mao as the architect of a new method of warfare.