Suicide bombers have been around for a long time, that's nothing new. Any time you have someone with nothing to lose, they have nothing lose...

Modern age military acceptance started with the Japanese desperate attempts to reach the B-29s, AA guns couldn't and the only way the Zeros could reach that altitude was stripped bare so they had to crash into them. Then the high command signed off officially on 'suicide diving' going after the carriers. What was news to me recently was after Okinawa, the civilian population of Japan was being trained for the inevitable invasion, mostly school children with sachel charges. I originally thought it was US casualty rates of a Japan evasion estimated in the 100,000s, hence the justification and reasoning behind dropping the Bombs. I just read some estimates would be as high as one million, which is certainly understandable, if 53 million people are being told it's death, rape and/or slavery anyway.

But yeah, technology is unreal at this point. My 10 year old is walking around with more computing power in his pocket than the Apollo capsules.