[dirtboy]

As my wife says, KMAR. Kiss my ass running.

My grandfather was Damage Control Officer on the Bunker Hill when it got kamikazied. Killed hundreds of men. Any military action that regularly depends upon suicide actions of men, from Japan in WWII to Islamifascists today, is illigitmate and immoral. A moral regime seeks to bring its bravest home if possible after the war, instead of deliberately sending them to suicide missions.

[MacDorcha]

Sappers (traditionally)
Berserkers

Several forms of the latter have arisen throughout almost all cultures- Over stimulate a man to the point of blinding rage, hand him a weapon and point him to the enemy. Carelessness alone usually resulted in fatal blows being reigned upon them, but due to adreneline, drugs, or just pure will, a few would result in much heavier casualties on the enemy.

Any war involves a level of “employing suicide tactics”

But it’s been much dimished what with “risk assesment training” and the value in dollars of the training of the individuals involved.

Of course, this was also still the result of an actual nation defending it’s land.

As the saying goes “All’s fair in Love and War.”

Just kill him before he kills you as a soldier, or make them bare more death than you as a commander.

[metesky]

Not only is it immoral, but it often backfires on the perps, which is why after Okinawa the U.S. decided that the fanatics could only be brought to bear in one way: an awesome display of power such as the world had never before seen.

The Japanese brought it on themselves.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Roger that, they died to save face for the military junta running Japan.