爱尔兰武装独立运动领导人米切尔·科林斯(Michael Collins)是个毁誉参半的悲剧人物:有人认为他是个不折不扣的恐怖分子,有人视他为传奇英雄,有人则希望岁月把他埋没。然而,20世纪许多重要人物——包括列宁、毛泽东(原文如此)、沙米尔——都曾经研究过他,因为他所指挥的一支极其弱小的武装力量竟然折服了大英帝国的意志。他所发展完善的城市游击战理论一再被后人采用。人们因此称他为“20世纪城市游击战之父”。 Michael Collins, the Irish armed independence movement leader, is a well-known tragic figure: some consider him an out-and-out terrorist, some consider him a legendary hero, while others want years to be buried. However, many important figures in the twentieth century, including Lenin, Mao Zedong and Shamir, have studied him because an extremely weak armed force under his command has conquered the will of the British Empire. His well-developed urban guerrilla warfare theory has repeatedly been adopted by future generations. People call it the “father of city guerrilla warfare in the twentieth century.”