Very good point. During my time in the Army I heard more than one senior officer gripe that “we haven’t won a war since WWII.”
The only good substitute for Unconditional Surrender is “everybody’s dead and there’s no one left to surrender.”
Exactly. One rule in war. Kill the enemy. If, at some point, survivors wish to sue for peace, accept their Unconditional Surrender. Until then kill as many as quickly as possible. As Sherman said, “Get it over as fast as possible lest we begin to like it too much.”