>>4733
Normally, this logic is separated between the army leadership making plans, and the soldiers on the ground who act by their own logic. The generals know that many will die, and that many missions are just general daily grinding that won't lead to a breakthrough right now, if at all. The Soviet Deep battle doctrine doesn't even expect attacks to work, they send people to die to find out which part of the enemy line is weaker, then they concentrate troops there to hit on that weakness. It's a kind of "nerve endings through the mass organization" method. Russia still uses this in a smaller scale, sending prisoners from Siberia out with some stated missions to "take that hill" or "take that intersection", then they observe to see who killed them, from what location, using what weapon system. From the perspective of not leaking information this is perfect (in its ruthlessness) because no communication can be falsified or intentionally leaked to the enemy. If soldiers die daily in large numbers, the losses this takes may be a gain the greater perspective and save the lives of others.

Internalizing these two completely separate perspectives, that is the Ninja secret. Are you able to be the stormtrooper and the general all at once, and still come through? The intelligence needed to survive this mission is the ability to instantly and selectively pick the path of that one soldier who lived by carrying out the retarded mission given to him, while serving the (to him) higher and hidden goal of the general.