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For the purposes of guerrilla warfare, Mao prescribes squads of 9 to 11 men each organized into platoons of 30 and companies of about 100 each. These companies are the building block that form the battalions, regiments, and divisions of a guerrilla force.

These companies are independent units, in the sense that they are raised independently from the native population against the occupying state for an insurgency or revolution. A guerrilla fighter can even be a student or a farmer armed and organized into an independent unit against the state.

Without a large, organized, and unified national anti-government front, war against the state is not possible.