Combating an invulnerable-seeming enemy requires finding their hidden weak point

Evidence

This warning may also be read as a prescription: when faced with an enemy who is seemingly invulnerable or who wishes to be so, find the fault, seek out the Achilles’ heel. Everything depends upon discovering in what way the seemingly invulnerable one is vulnerable. Combat presupposes an inquiry, and that inquiry concerns the body of the enemy. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 292 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

There is a time lag between what happens on the ground and when the drone operators see the image of that on their screen. The problem lies with the signal’s latency. Space, which it was claimed could be suppressed by technical means, made a comeback in the form of an incomprehensible time lag. All that the operators have to aim at is the slightly obsolete image of an earlier situation. The New York Times reports that targets now make the most of this asynchrony: when individuals think that they are being hunted by a drone, they adopt zigzag movements. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 294 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

The message of these myths is that invulnerability is precisely that, a myth. There is always one unforeseen weak point, one flaw. He has felled a dragon but will die from a fallen leaf. The lesson is not only that invulnerability can never be total, but also that any attempt to achieve invulnerability in turn engenders a corresponding vulnerability. It is by grasping Achilles’ body in order to plunge it into the river that Thetis makes it invulnerable and at the same time produces its vulnerable point, which is the spot at which she grasped it. With regard to invulnerability and vulnerability, these two, far from excluding one another, each summon up the other. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 291 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Attempts to achieve invulnerability always engender a corresponding vulnerability; Combat against an invulnerable enemy becomes an inquiry into his body’s flaw — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 292; Signal latency gives drone targets an exploitable weak point — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 294 (+2 more)

Related

• Any attempt to achieve invulnerability engenders a corresponding vulnerability. (similarity 0.91)
• Combat against an invulnerable enemy becomes an inquiry into his body’s flaw (similarity 0.91)
• Attempts to achieve invulnerability always engender a corresponding vulnerability (similarity 0.88)
• Signal latency gives drone targets an exploitable weak point (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Combat against an invulnerable enemy becomes an inquiry into his body’s flaw #corroborates (0.85) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 292
• Signal latency gives drone targets an exploitable weak point #exemplifies (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 294
• Any attempt to achieve invulnerability engenders a corresponding vulnerability. #contradicts (0.65) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 291