>>64145861
>Apparently they sent 30(!!) Suicide car bombers to take Mosul. I guess the math must check out in sending 30 fighters to a certain death vs potential deaths during a ground offensive
Those could be really powerful truck bombs, like the equivalent of a really powerful precision-guided bomb. Like imagine several dozen Timothy McVeighs hitting a fortified position in an urban area. They could do that to totally pulverize a position.

>>64145811
>How effective is suicide bombing actually as a military tactic?
Terrorism more generally is designed to introduce chaos into stable systems. It's like how people like pop music more than jazz because it's predictable progression. Introduce a lot of noise, the music stops making sense and people get nervous. It's designed to create tension in targeted populations. There's a scene from the Battle of Algiers that I thought illustrates this well because it includes music:
https://youtu.be/XReG51HbqtU