Central Asian Influence in Modern Military Treatises: A Tutorial for Historiographical Implementation of Quantum Link Prediction

This article introduces a tutorial-style implementation of Quantum Link Prediction (QLP) for citation network analysis in historiographical research, with a specific focus on the transnational historiography of Mongol military campaigns. Using a manually curated citation network of Russian and American military treatises from 1875 to 2012, the study applies simulated quantum random walks to identify previously unknown citation pathways. The article is structured to guide researchers through each phase of the QLP workflow, from network preprocessing and quantum circuit construction to result interpretation, making it accessible to scholars in the humanities new to quantum methods. Through this approach, we discover a previously unknown transmission link connecting the Russian and American corpora. This finding not only reshapes the existing citation network but also demonstrates the potential of QLP as an introductory use case for teaching quantum computing to learners in the humanities. To support reproducibility and future adoption the open-source QuantumRandomWalks package was published in conjunction with this paper.