What position did Lin Biao hold at the Red Army Academy in Yan’an?

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Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, and other Chinese officials stand in uniform, holding up Little Red Books during a 1967 Red Guard rally in China. — Lin Biao At a 1967 Red Guard rally, Lin Biao (left) and Zhou Enlai publicly display copies of *The Little Red Book*.

At the Red Army Academy in Yan’an, Lin Biao served as the president. He held this position after arriving in Shaanxi following the Long March, and he later resumed the presidency of the institution—then referred to as the Military and Political Academy—in 1943.1