Drone strikes occur in countries officially at peace, not just war zones.

Evidence

These machines are deployed not only in zones of armed conflict, such as Afghanistan, but also in countries officially at peace, such as Somalia, Yemen, and above all Pakistan, where CIA drones carry out on average one strike every four days. Exact figures are very hard to establish, but in Pakistan alone estimates of the number of deaths between 2004 and 2012 vary from 2,640 to 3,474.10 — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 112

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Drone strikes outside declared battlefields violate international law — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 251; Drone warfare operates everywhere rather than only on defined battlefields — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 827; Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace (+5 more)

Related

• Drone strikes outside declared battlefields violate international law (similarity 0.89)
• Neither law-enforcement nor laws-of-war frameworks can legally justify drone strikes (similarity 0.86)
• Drone warfare operates everywhere rather than only on defined battlefields (similarity 0.84)
• Drone strikes constitute weapons of state terrorism (similarity 0.83)
• The Afghanistan war instantly validated drones as central to future US military strategy. (similarity 0.83)
• Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace (similarity 0.82)
• Drones undermine the tacit geographic limits built into the laws of war (similarity 0.82)
• Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace (similarity 0.82)
• Drones transform war from combat-defined zones into pursuit-defined hunting grounds. (similarity 0.82)
• Obama’s drone campaign targeted five Muslim-majority countries and violated international law. (similarity 0.81)
• Modern drone asymmetry is a continuation of colonial weapons double standards (similarity 0.81)
• Drone use lowers the threshold so violence becomes the default foreign policy option. (similarity 0.80)
• Drone war turns strategic evaluation into disconnected body counts. (similarity 0.80)
• Drones add the remote control’s range to the weapon’s range. (similarity 0.80)
• Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Drone warfare operates everywhere rather than only on defined battlefields #corroborates (0.90) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 827
• Drones transform war from combat-defined zones into pursuit-defined hunting grounds. #expands (0.80) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 230
• Drones undermine the tacit geographic limits built into the laws of war #expands (0.80) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 851
• Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace #expands (0.70)
• Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace #expands (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1
• Drone-weaponized remote control radicalizes war into one-sided killing from safe zones #expands (0.60)
• Drone warfare establishes a norm neither war nor peace via imperial immunity #expands (0.60)