The Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention is a military doctrine that was issued in 1928 by Mao Zedong and his associates for the Chinese Red Army, who were then fighting against the Kuomintang. The contents vary slightly in different versions. One of the major distinctions of the doctrine was its respect for the civilians during wartime. The following version is obtained from Stephen Uhalley (1975). Military doctrine is a level of military planning between national strategy and unit-level tactics, techniques, and procedures. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Mao Zedong â–¶(?) (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976; Mao Tse-tung in Wade-Giles) was the chairman of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China from 1943 and the chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China from 1945 until his death. ... Alternate meaning: Shining Path The Peoples Liberation Army (PLA); Traditional Chinese: 人民解放軍, Simplified Chinese: 人民解放军, pinyin: Rénmín Jiěfàng Jūn), including strategic nuclear forces, an army, navy and air force, serves as the military of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... The Kuomintang (KMT) or Nationalist Party of China (Traditional: 中國國民黨; Simplified: 中国国民党; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo Kuo-min-tang; Tongyong Pinyin: Jhongguo Guomindang) is a conservative political party currently active in the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan. ... A civilian is a person who is not a member of a military. ... For other uses of War, see War (disambiguation). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...

The three rules enjoined

• prompt obedience to orders,
• no confiscation of property of the people, and
• All Spoils of War must be handed over to the public domain to ease the strains of demands on the people.

The eight points were:

• Be Courteous In All Conversations.
• All Transactions Must Be Carried out In Complete Honesty.
• Return All Borrowed Articles.
• If Borrowed Items Should be Broken, Replace it or Pay Compensations in Full.
• Do Not Insult People and Never Beat Them up.
• When Marching, Do Not Scavenge. Take Extra Care to Not Ruin Crops.
• Do not Flirt With Women.
• Do Not Abuse Prisoners and Do Not Search Their Body for Booty.

These injunctions were usually complied with, and came to make the Chinese Red Army a distinctive army in China and an exceptionally popular one. The attitude of the Three Rules and the Eight Points heavily contrasted with the Nationalist Kuomintang armies led by Chiang Kai-shek, who were fighting the Chinese Red Army in the Chinese Civil War. For example, Nationalist armies tended to board in civilian houses without permission, tended to be rude and disrespectful towards the civilians, or sometimes even confiscated material from the peasants in order to gain supplies. The Chinese Red Army however, under the Three Points of Discipline and Eight Points of Attention requested permission to take supplies and to board at houses instead, and any confiscation of peasant property were exceptions and promptly punished for. As a result, the peasants tended to spread disinformation whenever the Kuomintang arrived, while showing the Chinese Red Army hospitality whenever they arrived at villages. Alternate meaning: Shining Path The Peoples Liberation Army (PLA); Traditional Chinese: 人民解放軍, Simplified Chinese: 人民解放军, pinyin: Rénmín Jiěfàng Jūn), including strategic nuclear forces, an army, navy and air force, serves as the military of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... Army (from French armée) can, in some countries, refer to any armed force (for example, the Peoples Liberation Army of China consists of ground force, navy and air force branches). ... Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887–April 5, 1975) was a Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomintang (KMT) after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925. ... Alternate meaning: Shining Path The Peoples Liberation Army (PLA); Traditional Chinese: 人民解放軍, Simplified Chinese: 人民解放军, pinyin: Rénmín Jiěfàng Jūn), including strategic nuclear forces, an army, navy and air force, serves as the military of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... Jump to: navigation, search The Chinese Civil War (Traditional Chinese: 國共内戰; Simplified Chinese: 国共内战; pinyin: ; literally Nationalist-Communist Civil War) was a conflict in China between the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party; KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CPC). ... Disinformation, in the context of espionage, military intelligence, and propaganda, is the spreading of deliberately false information to mislead an enemy as to ones position or course of action. ...

This contrasting doctrine in comparison with the Kuomintang inevitably became one of the major reasons for winning most of their support, and thus the victory of the Chinese Red Army over the Kuomintang in 1949. Jump to: navigation, search Look up Victory on Wiktionary, the free dictionary A Victory is a win. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ...

Reference

• Uhalley, Stephen. Mao Tse-tung, a critical biography. 1975