Two more points:
(1) How do you know it is “little” reliable info?
(2) The best way to make a war short is to fight it as brutally and effectively as possible, ultimately saving many of the other side’s soldiers lives too.
Your morality comes at a high price in blood - theirs and ours.
nope nope
the object is not to fight as dirty as possible, the object is to fight as smart as possible.