Hannibal never had a plan to infiltrate Rome and have a Roman who was philosophically opposed to all that made Rome great, take over as Caesar.
good analogy, though of course there were no Caesars during the Punic wars, it was 200+years before Julius.
Another analogy are the actions of Jugurtha, a Numidian king (from what is now Algeria and maybe a bit of Tripolitana) who consistently bribed the Romaoi Senate.
That is right. for lessons on how to strategize with and defeat Islam much better would be to study the 1000 years of confrontation between Basileia RhÅmaiÅn (Byzantium) and the Sassanids and then Islam both arab and turk variety. The 1000 years that Byzantium mostly withstood assault upon assault giving western Europe breathing room. Of course the 4th crusade was a stab to the heart of Christendom when so called Christians turned on other Chrstians instead of Mohamed’s cult.