NINJA

A ninja is a highly skilled operator, specially trained in

the art and science of assassination, espionage,

guerilla warfare, covert killing, and combative Martial

Arts. In Japanese culture, they are usually trained for

dangerous and high-risk stealth clandestine missions

very similar to those of the modern day Special Forces

like the US Navy Seals, Taiwan Thunder Squad, US Delta

Force, British SAS, Polish Grom, FBI Hostage Rescue

Team, and Police SWAT Team units. Although their exact

origins are still unknown, we do know that they

appeared in fourteenth century feudal Japan, and

remained active from the Kamakura to the Edo period.

Their roles may have included sabotage, espionage,

scouting, and assassination missions as a way to

destabilize and cause social chaos in an enemy country

or to an opposing ruler, perhaps in the service of their

feudal rulers (daimyo,shogun), or an underground Ninja

organization waging guerilla warfare.