[LS]

Well, then in that case they didn't invent anything: the Japanese kamikaze attacks had no real battlefield value. Even if "successful," they weren't going to stop an invasion. Instead, they were totally directed against political will, making the American public so casualty-averse that they said, "Forget it."

[JasonC]

They were not even seriously directed against US political will. They were simply dying to show they preferred death for their emperor to the disgrace of living with defeat. Which was pointless, and in which we indulged them as much as they liked, until they were no more.

[Iris7]

Actually the Kamikaze were extremely effective. The upper brass were intensely worried. The Fleet would have had to be within very easy range of Kamikaze attackers when Japan was invaded. Japan was trading a dozen aircraft and pilots for a United States Navy warship. Unsymmetrical warfare with a vengeance.

Nuclear weapons turned the tide.