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Mao‘s 6 military writings illustrated the changing situation of the battlefield and instructed them to overcome them with courage and adaptability. The Kuomintang army was devastated and defeated in many battlefields, where The Communist Party gains victory with strategies and battlefield tactics. He also wrote on the ―Problems of the policy of revolutionary warfare‖ which helped the army to become prepared of the battlefield complexities. Regular warfare and guerrilla warfare were separated and analyzed by his writing. He also supported the long term war instead of short term war as it weakens the enemy from the core of its power to the periphery in the warzone. Mao‘s policy and tactics were heavily influenced by Tsun zu, who was the most influential ancient military strategist. He in his writings suggested and advised man battlefield strategy to the soldiers and the commander in achieving victory in 19 Mao‘s contribution can be analyzed from many different aspects. From the founder of the nation to the state leadership, his passion was devoted for the development of the country. He slowly took long term policies as well which transformed agrarian China to the modern industrialized China. Altogether, he was a multifaceted leader and a successful military strategist. However, most of the people are unaware of his military strategies which helped the commander and the soldiers to achieve their military objectives also. Page Through Cultural Revolution Mao elevated political sloganeering to an art form. Cultural Revolution actually was planned to reshape the society on the basis of adopting new norms and replacing the old ones by them. The posters and slogans eventually become popular but failed to bring a long term effect to the society. One of the slogans is – ―Let 100 flowers blossom”. Which means let 100 school of thoughts contend. This was the trend to allow criticism from the inside and outside of the Communist party and to consider them as positive criticism which could help the party to correct their mistake and to advance towards tolerance. But when it crossed the limit of patience and tolerance of the leaders, it was abandoned also.