What Were They Thinking?

If you can't beat 'em, scare 'em. That's the thinking behind the battle-tested terror tactic that convinces young pilots to crash their planes into command-designated enemy targets. When successful, the enemy is made to feel violated and vulnerable -- and the pilot is made to feel, well, dead.

That was the calculus bheind the infamous Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. Yet it's a tactic that was popularized halfway around the world over five decades before. Listen and learn about it in this episode.

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