It’s intriguing, unexpected and perhaps even significant that the first issue of the English-language Jihadist magazine “Jihad Recollections” from Al-Fursan Media should feature an illustration of Mahan’s classic The Influence of Sea Power to accompany its cover story on “The Predications of the Conquering of Rome”:
It would be interesting to see a bibliography of western historical and military texts referenced in jihadist literature…
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The journal can be dowloaded here.
For an eschatological note on the same “Jihad Recollections” article, see the comment on The conquest of Romiyya / Rome in my Forensic Theology blog.
