全民皆兵 准备打仗

Vintage original Chinese Propaganda poster. Artwork by Le Tan/ Siao Zheng Hu. Lithograph printed in Beijing, China. Linenbacked.

In the late 1950s, the strategy of 'people's war' was revived by Mao, who insisted at the time that men rather than weapons decide wars. The goal of this "everyone-a-soldier" movement was to maintain control over a vast territory with only thin resources, to protect the national borders, and if necessary, to retreat to the interior to fight a protracted war.