Yes.
You also have a responsibility to choose when, where, and how you engage the enemy.
Engaging a squad of soldiers on your doorstep with your babies sleeping upstairs, while romantic, is not calculated to move toward victory. It is a symbolic suicide.
The enemy should be engaged where they are weak, not where they are strong.
Fortunately, they have thousands of weak points - and most of them have absolutely no concept of what they are trying to stir up.
So, fight, yes, by all means - fight for victory, fight wise.
Thousands of us learned well from the Viet Cong.