Claimed technical precision is used to justify global extension of lethal force.

Evidence

This would give rise to a curious legal hybrid, somewhere between warfare and policing, that could benefit from the liberalities of both regimes without being obliged to accept the constraints of either. Militarized manhunting would at last have found adequate legal expression in the shape of a global right of lethal policing. The United States would profit, since “self-defense gives the discretionary ability to attack anywhere in the world where a target is located, without having to make claims about a state of armed conflict everywhere and always across the world”21—an elegant enough solution, which, however, Philip Alston ventures to translate as “license to kill.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 553 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Precision weaponry expands rather than confines the battlefield to the whole world.; Claimed precision paradoxically expands global killing rather than limiting it; Target-centered battlefield logic legally licenses worldwide execution of suspects (+4 more)

Related

• The proposed hybrid legal regime grants a global right of lethal policing (similarity 0.94)
• Target-centered battlefield logic legally licenses worldwide execution of suspects (similarity 0.90)
• A legal hybrid of war and policing grants a global license to kill (similarity 0.89)
• Police preponderance over the military encodes a regime’s claim to global rule (similarity 0.89)
• Some advocates propose a new legal regime of unconstrained lethal self-defense (similarity 0.87)
• The combatant-to-militant shift expands the right to kill indefinitely (similarity 0.87)
• Geocentric war law is attacked to justify lethal policing beyond borders (similarity 0.86)
• Claimed precision paradoxically expands global killing rather than limiting it (similarity 0.86)
• Soldiers and police have fundamentally different legal rules for lethal force (similarity 0.81)
• Kill boxes can be extended anywhere, anytime a qualifying target is found. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Claimed precision paradoxically expands global killing rather than limiting it #corroborates (0.80)
• Target-centered battlefield logic legally licenses worldwide execution of suspects #expands (0.70)
• A legal hybrid of war and policing grants a global license to kill #expands (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 553
• The proposed hybrid legal regime grants a global right of lethal policing #corroborates (0.70)
• Geocentric war law is attacked to justify lethal policing beyond borders #complicates (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 248