@lukedalton
I don't say, that it would have been a remarkable good idea to continue the fighting, but a choice - how stupid ever - there was.
The Ebert goverment even prepared from May 1919 onwards for the continue of fighting, at least political from the sources I know, despite their knowledge of its (most and very likely) futility, despite their own unwillingness for further war.
For 'asymetric warfare' :
What chance had and how 'logic' were had the Kosciuszko and the following polish uprisings 1830 and 1863 ?
What chance had and how 'logic' were the indian wars of Geronimo, of the Lakota in 1876 (Little Big Horn) etc. ?
What chance had and how 'logic' were the vietnam wars (first against the french, then the US) ?
What chance had and how 'logic' was the Afghan war against the superpower of the SU ?
Decisions for such wars and uprisings are not made by 'logic'.
To call biographies "wishfull thinking" ... to some extent I can agree, though their inherent facts can be checked and counterchecked by using a number of sources, not relying only of one.
To call bureaucratic protocols so ... is just denying any worth to any kind of document at all to fit into a certain personal view on things.
But you might wish to check by yourself :
here are the protocols of the Reichskanzlei as well as IMO educated introduction by historians definitly NOT trying to argue and deflect defeat and blame someone else with any "guilt" of defeat.