How did that approach work out for us in Nam?
The bottom line is, to win a war, you need boots on the ground, but those boots have to be given carte blanche to prosecute the war in a manner that brings victory, or as Patton said, "Make the other poor son of bitch die for his country."
According to Ngyuen Giap in his book "How We Won The War" it completely demoralzed the communists and they would have capitulated had it not been for traitorous Americans like Jane Fonda protesting the war.