Drone strikes constitute weapons of state terrorism

Evidence

It is fighting by means of terror, and no attempt is made to disguise the fact. Says Dunlap, “American precision airpower is analogous (on a much larger and more effective scale) to the effect that insurgents try to impose … through the use of improvised explosive devices.” The point could not be made more clearly: at a tactical level (and setting aside technological sophistication), drone strikes are equivalent to bomb attacks. They constitute the weapons of state terrorism. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 261 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Drone strikes outside declared battlefields violate international law — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 251; Drone strikes amount tactically to the state’s version of insurgent bomb attacks. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 261

Related

• Drone strikes amount tactically to the state’s version of insurgent bomb attacks. (similarity 0.94)
• Drone strikes occur in countries officially at peace, not just war zones. (similarity 0.83)
• Neither law-enforcement nor laws-of-war frameworks can legally justify drone strikes (similarity 0.83)
• Drone strikes outside declared battlefields violate international law (similarity 0.82)
• Drones abolish the condition of combat that makes combatants identifiable. (similarity 0.81)
• Drones produce constant terror because targets never know when they are tracked. (similarity 0.81)
• Drone missiles have larger lethal radii than conventional infantry weapons (similarity 0.81)
• Drone strikes are justified as self-defense and life-and-cost-saving substitutes for ground war (similarity 0.81)
• Drone war turns strategic evaluation into disconnected body counts. (similarity 0.81)
• Armed drones reshape sovereignty over a state’s own subjects, not just enemies (similarity 0.80)
• Drones resolve the guerrilla problem by depriving insurgents of any target to attack. (similarity 0.80)
• Drone patrols grew 1,200 percent from 2004 to 2012 while defense shrank. (similarity 0.80)
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. (similarity 0.80)
• Obama’s drone campaign targeted five Muslim-majority countries and violated international law. (similarity 0.80)
• Drones are nondiscriminatory because excluding combat erases the combatant-noncombatant distinction. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Drone strikes amount tactically to the state’s version of insurgent bomb attacks. #expands (0.65) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 261