Bennabi devoted a whole book to the methods by which colonialism sought to exert influence at a distance, failing to continue to cumulate all the powers in the decolonization countries. In " Vocation of Islam he had voluntarily refused to dwell on the " Foreign plots ". He preferred to focus on the study of the 'inner dynamism' of the Muslim world. But he ended up devoting them a volume when, becoming repetitive, these 'intrigues' risked undermining this internal dynamism, as a result of the deculturation of some of the intellectual and political elites who were not interested in independence.
The reissue of open letters in which Bennabi had tried to respond to campaigns aimed at curbing the dissemination of his ideas, provided information on the author's troubled situations. These dated texts explain the genesis of his ideas for this " Invisible war "