You kinda don’t understand most things. I’ll make it simple, where in my words did I say “cede territory” in that comment. Point even to where the word territory appeared in it.
Find “cede territory” or “territory” mentioned at all in that entire comment.
Your plan to stop the war is “stop grabbing people off the street”, you say the military is almost all forced fighters and would then flee. If there is no more military how do you expect resistance to be offered? Magic, are we to call Merlin? Dog meat? Pray real hard? What?