[PouncingAnt]

Yeah, that's one way of describing it. The feeling of a protective force very much surrounds the word.

But Kamikaze was never used specifically for those pilots, it was used as an informal term describing suicide attacks in general. Using it to describe the pilots was done on the American intelligence side, I'm not sure why.

I'm reluctant to associate kamikaze with the suicide bombers, since the meaning of the word stretches far further back, and I'm really not sure to what extent the second World War effected the word.