Suicide warfare culture, the military, and the individual as a weapon /

Skaine, Rosemarie.

Suicide warfare culture, the military, and the individual as a weapon / [electronic resource] : Rosemarie Skaine. - Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2013. - xv, 337 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theoretical analysis of suicide warfare -- Defining suicide warfare -- Suicide warfare in modern conflicts -- Suicide and policies of war -- Strategies of suicide warfare -- Effects of suicide warfare -- Case studies -- Japan's kamikaze pilots -- Hezbollah and Palestinian conflicts with Israel -- Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers -- Chechen separatists -- Al Qaeda -- Conclusion: Suicide as a weapon in war -- Appendix: Documents -- A. President George W. Bush, national security strategy, pre-emptive self defense, "The Bush Doctrine" -- B. President Barack Obama acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, Norway, December 10, 2009, "Just War" - excerpt -- Al Qaeda's seven stages plan -- Chechen separatist note of demands to President Putin, August 30, 2004 -- E. The killing of Osama bin Laden -- F. Osama bin Laden's Last Letter, Late May 2010, to Shaykh Mahmud ("Atiyya") - Excerpt.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780313398650 (electronic bk.)




Suicide--Political aspects.
Suicide bombings.
Kamikaze airplanes.


Electronic books.

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