Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/12515
Title: Contributing Factors To Pkk's Failure To Implement Mao's Protracted People's War Strategy
Authors: Ozcan, Nihat Ali
Bural, Erol Basaran
Keywords: Insurgency
Guerrilla Warfare
Maoism
Pkk
Protracted People'S War Strategy
Terrorism
T & Uuml
Rkiye
Publisher: Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
Abstract: This article investigates how and why Mao's protracted people's war strategy of three stages (strategic defence, strategic balance, and strategic offence) was chosen and implemented as the main strategy by PKK and why PKK failed in the first stage of this strategy. It explores this failure using an empirical content analysis of primary sources, specifically the documents published by the PKK. The comparative analysis of Mao's strategy from a military perspective, along with the PKK's implementation of it, is a main focus of this research. The principal question is 'What factors contributed to PKK's failure in implementing Mao's protracted people's war strategy, specifically in failing to move beyond the first stage?' The analysis pinpoints six factors contributing to PKK's military failure, with the most notable being the shift in Turkish Armed Forces' strategic approach to counterterrorism, as implemented in 1993.
URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2025.2501984
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11851/12515
ISSN: 0959-2318
1743-9558
Appears in Collections:Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collection
WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection

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