“Yup. My point is that they are not DISCOURAGING the ones not actually killed, they are EMBOLDENING them.
I want Abdul to quit the battlefield after seeing what happened to Achmed.”
Do our servicemen quit after they see their brothers maimed by IEDs and bullets? Not even close.
I’m OK with the Carthage solution you advocate.
That's the retail version of the "modulated conflict" concept that the "Ten Wise Men", the "Best and the Brightest", brought to the Vietnamese War.
They were the ones who chickened out in the end, leaving LBJ sitting there holding his **** in his hand and mumbling to himself, "Somebody poisoned the well."
Fight to win. Kill the enemy.