周恩来是中共最早懂得武装斗争和革命军队的极端重要性、最早从事军事工作的杰出军事家，也是中共开创人民战争的先驱。第一次国内革命战争时期，周恩来即在理论上和实践上对人民战争进行了开创性探索。第二次国内革命战争和抗日战争时期，他坚持依靠群众，实行革命武力与民众相结合，正规军、游击队与民兵相结合，开展人民战争。解放战争时期，他首倡并领导“第二战场”，充分发挥人民战争威力，终于把蒋家王朝埋葬在人民战争的汪洋大海之中。 周恩来是我军战略战术思想的主要奠基人之一。他在长期领导革命战争的实践中，积累了丰富的作战经验，形成一套行之有效的战略战术原则。当解放战争进入战略反攻阶段时，他集中集体智慧，进一步全面总结我军战略战术，撰写了《军事原则》这篇光辉著作，丰富了毛泽东军事思想，为中国革命作出不可磨灭的贡献。 Zhou Enlai was the earliest CCP prominent military strategist who understands the importance of the armed struggle and the revolutionary army and was the earliest Communist military who pioneered the People’s War. During the first Revolutionary Civil War, Zhou Enlai explored the people’s war theoretically and practically. During the Second Revolutionary Civil War and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he persisted in relying on the masses, combining revolutionary forces with the general public, combining the regular army, guerrillas and militias to carry out the people’s war. During the war of liberation, he advocated and led “the second battlefield”, gave full play to the power of the people’s war and finally buried the Chiang dynasty in the vast sea of ​​people’s war. Zhou Enlai is one of the major founders of our military’s strategic and tactical thinking. In the long-term practice of leading the revolutionary war, he accumulated rich experience in combat operations and formed a set of effective strategic and tactical principles. When the war of liberation entered the phase of strategic counter-offensive, he concentrated his collective wisdom, further comprehensively summarized our military’s strategy and tactics, and wrote the glorious work of “military principles,” enriching Mao Tse-tung’s military thinking and made indelible contributions to the Chinese revolution.