 Notably, Naji discusses the value of provoking military responses from superpowers in order to recruit and train guerrilla fighters and to create martyrs.Naji suggests that a long-lasting strategy of attrition will reveal fundamental weaknesses in the ability of superpowers to defeat committed jihadists.Naji professes to have been inspired by Ibn Taymiyya, the influential 14th-century Islamic scholar and theologian.