Encirclement campaigns (Chinese Civil War)

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The encirclement campaigns of the Chinese Civil War were Republic of China (ROC) offensives against Chinese Communist Party (CCP) revolutionary base areas in China from the late-1920s to 1934 during the Chinese Civil War.{{sfn|Hsu|2012|p=6}}{{sfn|Opper|2020|loc="Chapter 3: The Chinese Soviet Republic, 1931 – 1934, Section IV: The KMT Strategy and Alternative"}}

The climax were the five "encirclement and suppression",{{sfn|Opper|2020|loc="Chapter 3: The Chinese Soviet Republic, 1931 – 1934, Section IV: The KMT Strategy and Alternative"}} or "extermination",{{sfn|Hsu|2012|p=6}} campaigns against the Chinese Soviet Republic (CSR) from 1930 to 1934.{{sfn|Opper|2020|loc="Chapter 3: The Chinese Soviet Republic, 1931 – 1934, Section IV: The KMT Strategy and Alternative"}} The final campaign, developed with German advisors, destroyed the CSR's Jiangxi Soviet and precipitated the CCP's strategic retreat in the Long March.{{sfn|Hsu|2012|p=137}}{{sfn|Opper|2020|loc="Chapter 3: The Chinese Soviet Republic, 1931 – 1934, Section V. CCP Territorial Control: From Guerrillas to Soldiers"}}

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  • {{cite book |last1=Opper |first1=Marc |title=People's Wars in China, Malaya, and Vietnam |date=2020 |publisher=University Of Michigan Press |location=Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |isbn=978-0-472-12657-6}}
  • {{cite book |last=Hsu |first=Wilbur W. |date=2012 |title=Survival Through Adaptation: The Chinese Red Army and the Extermination Campaigns, 1927-1936 |publisher=Combat Studies Institute Press |series=Art of War Papers |location=Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA |url=https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/ArtOfWar_SurvivalThroughAdaptation.pdf }}

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Category:Campaigns of the Chinese Civil War (1927–1937)