After the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, Pershing privately regretted that the Germans had not been forced to surrender unconditionally twenty years earlier.
The only place where you can experience the flow of life is the Now, so to surrender is to accept the present moment unconditionally and without reservation.
Two years later the kingdom surrendered unconditionally, and Genghis turned his attention against the Jin Dynasty in northern China in an epic struggle that would last for twenty years.
He concluded with his opinion that Germany should be forced into an unconditional surrender, but that any armistice should be sufficiently restrictive as to not allow the Germans to take up arms again.
Both Pershing and General Tasker Bliss, who had remained on the Supreme War Council after his retirement as Chief of Staff of the United States Army, had been in favour of unconditional surrender.