If we're going back to ancient times, then maybe the Celts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudity_in_combat
Quote:
Polybius' Histories describe how the Celts visually intimidated the Roman enemy before they engaged in the fight: naked, furiously shaking their long hair, shrieking brutally, bragging and defiant, showing an outrageous contempt for their own life.[1] Diodorus Siculus reported other instances of such combat: "Some use iron breast-plates in battle, while others fight naked, trusting only in the protection which nature gives."
In recent times, there was Joshua Milton Blahyi, a.k.a. General Butt Naked
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_BlahyiQuote:
"So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then strip down to our shoes and go into battle wearing colourful wigs and carrying imaginary purses we'd looted from civilians. We'd slaughter anyone we saw, chop their heads off and use them as soccer balls. We were nude, fearless, drunk yet strategic. We killed hundreds of people – so many I lost count." Blahyi also purported that during that period he had "magical powers that made him invisible" and a "special power" to capture a town singlehandedly, then call in his troops afterwards to "clean up". Some of Blahyi's soldiers – often teenage boys – would enter battle naked; others would wear women's clothes.
He is now an evangelist
http://joshuamiltonblahyi.com/
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