With "to lose is to die" as Gozaburo's aggressive ideology and the later added context of him powering a corporation of the military industrial complex, I think a bit of something like the battle of Iwo Jima in WWII. Where the Japanese soldiers were not expected to win but rather to slow down the procession of the American troops, and that the Japanese soldiers were expected to die for this cause and there was the pressure that if worst came to worst, it was better for the soldier to commit suicide than to surrender. There are accounts of cornered and/or desperate Japanese soldiers with no more chance of winning holding grenades to their chests and letting themselves blow up, and many starved and dehydrated to death in their chambers because surrender was pressed as taboo. I wonder if Gozaburo is in some capacity meant to represent that pressure and ideology from the chain of command from the past. I don't know.
