Surrender is when soldiers give up fighting and become prisoners of war, either as individuals or when ordered to by their officers .

Prisoners are never to be mistreated or abused. In the United States Army, surrendered persons are to be treated according to the "5 S:s" until turned over to higher authority.

• Silence: so that they cannot plan an escape attempt.
• Search: for weapons or items of intelligence value.
• Secure: tie up and/or guard carefully at all times, particularly at first.
• Safeguard: do not allow the dangers of the battlefield to hurt them
• Separate: soldiers from officers, men from women, combatants from civilians, to make them easier to control.

Entire nations can also surrender in an attempt to end a war or military conflict. This is done through the signing of an armistice or peace treaty.

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Surrender is the title of a 1999 album by the Chemical Brothers.

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"Surrender" is a 1961 #1 song by Elvis Presley.

"Surrender" is also a song by the band Cheap Trick from their 1978 album Heaven Tonight.