Tan No. 2 was an ethical failure because it had no viable military purpose. States may have to fight when aggression threatens others, but commanders still owe their personnel a credible objective. The assigned force was too small, and the plan offered no plausible route to success. That judgment does not erase the cultural, social, economic, and historiographical reasons Japan adopted kamikaze operations.
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Military necessity and the waste of life
The opening separates unavoidable wartime sacrifice from an operation too small and poorly planned to achieve its stated aims.