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

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.

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.