KAMIKAZE PSYCHOLOGY AND THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN INDIVIDUAL TERRORIST ATTACKS
KAMIKAZE PSYCHOLOGY AND THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN INDIVIDUAL TERRORIST ATTACKS

Summary/Abstract: History contains many conflicts that led to the loss of thousands and hundreds of thousands of lives. Many of those who gave their lives for a belief can be considered terrorists today, but also may be honored as heroes. “Kamikaze” is a word that calls us to reflection. The Second World War fully established this word. What does this mean? Who was kamikaze? Is it about suicide pilots, called the Knights of the Divine Wind (Japanese kamikaze - “divine wind”), who were crushing along with their aircraft on the aircraft carriers, desperately refusing the idea of defeat? In November 1944, a statement of the Japanese forces Headquarters announced an unprecedented event: nine young Japanese aviators sank an American battleship, rushing into the ship with their planes loaded with bombs. The example of these pilots, according to the bulletin, has been followed by thousands of other young people. Thus, Admiral Onishi Takijro passed to implement the project Ooka or “Cherry Blossom”. In April 1945, in the Battle of Okinawa, over 2,000 Japanese planes hit the American fleet, destroying more than 300 ships and killing more than 5,000 American soldiers. Many of the Japanese planes, without ammunition, struck the ships with the force of a lightning. Things are not unimportant, especially if we look to the Muslim world. Without the intent to develop the subject of martyrdom we are wondering ourselves however whether it has become an incentive for the holy war?

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