Shelf Life: The Enemy Speaks

INa project sponsored by the U.S. Joint Forces Command, the Naval Institute Press recently released a couple of paperbacks that will be very helpful to anyone trying to understand the war we’re in. Both are edited by Jim Lacey, a prominent defense-policy analyst and former Army infantry officer whose writing has appeared in NATIONAL REVIEW. The Canons of Jihad: Terrorists’Strategy for Defeating America (187 pp., $18) is a reader-friendly anthology of jihadist writings from Hasan al-Banna and Sayyid

Qutb to the present day. These texts are hair-raisingly candid; author after author seeks to disprove the contentions-advanced by moderate Muslims and Westerners sympathetic to Islam-that Islam is a peaceful religion and jihad is chiefly the believer’s struggle against his own egotism.

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Michael Potemra

Michael Potemra was a literary editor for National Review.

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INa project sponsored by the U.S. Joint Forces Command, the Naval Institute Press recently released a couple of paperbacks that will be very helpful to anyone trying to understand the war we’re in. Both are edited by Jim Lacey, a prominent defense-policy analyst and former Army infantry officer whose writing has appeared in NATIONAL REVIEW. The Canons of Jihad: Terrorists’Strategy for Defeating America (187 pp., $18) is a reader-friendly anthology of jihadist writings from Hasan al-Banna and Sayyid

Qutb to the present day. These texts are hair-raisingly candid; author after author seeks to disprove the contentions-advanced by moderate Muslims and Westerners sympathetic to Islam-that Islam is a peaceful religion and jihad is chiefly the believer’s struggle against his own egotism.