Suicide mission
Assumption command - also called kamikaze order - is a term from military jargon that describes a particularly dangerous mission , the execution of which is highly likely - and only in exceptional cases - to death, to the " journey to heaven ", i.e. to the afterlife , of the executor. The analogous English terms are suicide mission (= suicide mission ), glory-or-grave-job (fame or grave mission) or suicide squad (= suicide command , literally: " suicide squad "). The term found its way into civil colloquial language , in which it is generally used for an unpleasant and hopeless task, which - knowing that failure is almost certainly imminent - still has to be done.
Examples of suicide missions
In the era of the Napoleonic Wars , a breach was shot or blown into the wall during the siege of fortresses . This breach was often mined by the enemy, set up with other traps and generally bitterly defended. The attackers set up a suicide mission from volunteers . These men were the first to storm over the difficult-to-walk wall breakthrough and therefore had many deaths to complain about. Surviving officers of such a suicide mission were promoted immediately, soldiers awarded and rewarded with additional pay.
Other examples of war missions with notoriously high loss rates, which are often referred to as "suicide missions", are aircraft missions in World War I or submarine warfare in World War II (for example, the submarine crews of the German Navy or the US Navy suffered the highest loss rates of the respective armed forces).
Suicide attacks such as the kamikaze attacks by Japanese airmen in World War II must be distinguished from the suicide mission . They ended deliberately fatally, and if the job was carried out successfully, the pilots did not die of enemy action, but of their own hands. Colloquially, suicide bombings are sometimes referred to as suicide missions.
The word component “command” comes from the term commando company .
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Individual documents and notes
- ↑ Himmelfahrtskommando - Duden , Bibliographisches Institut ; 2016
- ↑ the term " Kamikaze command" (or also "Kamikazebefehl") was probably coined in this way (or something like that) in the Second World War and probably has its origin in a stormy weather event during a Mongol invasion in the 13th century, see also Kamikaze (Mongol invasion)