A remote-controlled suicide bomber is essentially a human drone

Evidence

The passengers traveling in three vehicles that, a few hours ago, left their little village in the province of Daikundi have no idea that for quite some time now, dozens of eyes have been watching them. Among those invisible spectators are not only the pilot and sensor operator but also a mission intelligence coordinator, a safety observer, a team of video analysts, and a ground force commander, the last of whom will eventually give the go-ahead for an aerial strike. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 24 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Drone-weaponized remote control radicalizes war into one-sided killing from safe zones; Each drone strike involves a distributed network of human watchers and deciders — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 24; In suicide bombing the body itself becomes the weapon, not merely its concealment. — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 155

Related

• Each drone strike involves a distributed network of human watchers and deciders (similarity 0.88)
• Drone-weaponized remote control radicalizes war into one-sided killing from safe zones (similarity 0.85)
• Drone strikes depend on a network of remote invisible human observers (similarity 0.84)
• Drone targeting hinged on remote visual guesses about sex and combatant status (similarity 0.81)
• Remote-controlled machines were proposed as a third option beyond protected men or autonomous machines (similarity 0.81)
• Drone warfare pits unburdened machines against bodies bound by physical limits. (similarity 0.80)
• Drones add the remote control’s range to the weapon’s range. (similarity 0.80)
• In suicide bombing the body itself becomes the weapon, not merely its concealment. (similarity 0.80)
• Drone killing is reduced to clicking on tiny on-screen figures (similarity 0.80)
• dronization of soldiers was a precondition for the pure drone (similarity 0.80)
• Remote-controlled weapons treat the enemy as dangerous material to be eliminated unilaterally (similarity 0.79)
• The drone made warfare absolutely unilateral, killing without risk of being killed (similarity 0.79)
• Drones evolved from surveillance eyes into lethal hunter-killer weapons. (similarity 0.79)
• Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.78)
• Drones transformed from surveillance eyes into weapons almost by chance. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Drone-weaponized remote control radicalizes war into one-sided killing from safe zones #expands (0.70)
• Each drone strike involves a distributed network of human watchers and deciders #complicates (0.50) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 24