Lawyers have been losing wars for us for the last half-century.
Losing wars? What?
Let's look at America's wars in the last 58 years.
Korean War:American victory. Enemy military casualties exceed coalition casualties by at least 400,000.
Vietnam War:America loses. Enemy military casualties exceed coalition casualties by 800,000.
Iraq War I:American victory. Enemy casualties comprise 20,000 to 35,000, coalition casualties comprise 375 men and women.
Iraq War II:US and allied forces crush the Iraqi Army (despite Iraqi military superiority in-theater, inflicting 30,000 casualties, whereas US and allied forces suffered 172 casualties. The post-invasion insurgency conflict is yet unresolved, but going extremely well for America. Afghanistan remains unresolved.
America's system, with legal and
civilian control of the military, where the military is subject to limits on how they wage war, is not only the most moral system in the word, it's also the most capable.
In practically every conflict, when an enemy that knows no limit to its methods of warfare runs up against America or another Western combatant, the enemy in question breaks and runs away like the pile of wimps they really are. The only exception known is Vietnam.