Making Sense of Suicide Missions by Diego Gambetta

By Diego Gambetta

Suicide assaults became the defining act of political violence of our age. From long island urban to Baghdad, from Sri Lanka to Israel, few can doubt that they're a pervasive and terrifying function of our political panorama. in line with a wealth of unique info and study, and containing contributions from across the world exotic students, Making experience of Suicide Missions furthers our figuring out of this chilling function of the modern international in notably new and unforeseen ways.

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Such diaries were strictly forbidden and kept in secret. The most widely read collection of last writings is the book Kike Wadatsumi no Koe (‘Listen to the Voices of the Sea Gods’a). This is a collection of diary, letter, and testimony material left by university student war dead, compiled shortly after the war. There was a very conscious selection bias, and material that might be interpreted as supporting militaristic or ultranationalist views was deliberately excluded. A sensitive analysis of the writings of Wve such university student pilots is given by Ohnuki-Tierney (2002).

Ito¯ Tsutomub) The hope that the correspondent’s parents will not be sad: When you hear of my death don’t cook red rice and or put on a black kimono. Yell ‘Banzai’ and greet my remains with joy. (Komatsu Takeshib) When you get the photograph, please don’t cry but praise me. (Ito¯ Tsutomub) In addition to these general themes, a broad range of emotions can be discerned in the last writings of pilots ranging from joy to despair, from pride to disgust. Lieutenant Mitsuhashi, age 22 (Naito¯ 1989: 113–14): When men did their best and left the rest to providence, they were rewarded with divine winds.

This had the eVect of increasing the bloody-mindedness of the students and their desire to show that they were as tough as the regular oYcers. Aviators were less likely to be beaten in the course of their training as it was believed that this would cause them to be too tense in the air (Nagatsuka 1974: 50). Methods of Selection: Volunteering The call for volunteers was initially very strong. In the case of the Wrst Shinpu¯ Tokko¯tai attack, all of the non-commissioned oYcers and reserve oYcer pilots (though signiWcantly none of the academy graduates) volunteered to participate in the mission.

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