“What this says to me: Never, ever, ever stop fighting until you draw your last breath. I don’t want to die getting shot like a dog.”
And the odd thing, proven time and again by the USMC, is that if you fight -exactly- that way, the curve to defeat you that seemed so easy before, takes an incredible upward vertical turn.
The resistance borne of the knowledge of no quarter is nearly impossible to overcome and requires application of insane overwhelming power to win. Stalingrad, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of Berlin are examples of this.