Berserkers

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Berserkers (or berserks) were Norse warriors who are primarily reported in the Old Norse literature to have fought in a nearly uncontrollable, trance-like fury, ...

‎Berserker (disambiguation) - ‎Trance - ‎Drug - ‎Old Norse literature

I'm of course using the term loosely on ISIL where you have men willing to commit ANY atrocity during wartime for a cause? Whenever men or women move towards (ANY means to an end) you start to go into this kind of territory. Hitler hired people who were homicidal maniacs from insane asylums too to kill the jews and torture and kill many innocent people. This is why Al Qaeda has even disavowed ISIL. So, basically it isn't surprising using these tactics that the Iraqi army runs away not wanting to be beheaded or have their families killed or tortured too. This is the way ancient warlords functioned to where people were so scared out of their minds that soldiers often dropped their weapons and ran instead of knowing they were going to die and fighting to their deaths.

I think Berserkers more and more will be met by Drones and "Terminator" robotic types of soldiers whether they are humans who are choosing to die for their families and countries or whether they are manned by soldiers or pilots at a distance. Likely nations will more and more give no quarter or mercy to those who conduct warfare like complete barbarians of the 12th century or before in today's world.

However, the real problem is not dealing with "Berserkers" the real problem is protecting innocent people from being beheaded or worse by the berserkers.

And I'm not sure if the civilized world has a way to protect the innocents. So, likely many innocents will die right along with the Berserkers in the end.