Drone use lowers the threshold so violence becomes the default foreign policy option.

Evidence

Whether the risks of war are transferred to natives or to machines, Hobson’s views still hold. The dronization of the armed forces, just like any other procedure that externalizes those risks, alters the conditions of decision making in warfare. Because the threshold of recourse to violence is drastically lowered, violence tends to be seen as the default option for foreign policy. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 586

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Low cost of drone warfare removes congressional restraint on military action; Externalizing war risks makes violence the default policy option; The discourse of ethical drones strategically lowers the cost of using them. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 590 (+2 more)

Related

• Low cost of drone warfare removes congressional restraint on military action (similarity 0.93)
• Externalizing war risks makes violence the default policy option (similarity 0.89)
• The discourse of ethical drones strategically lowers the cost of using them. (similarity 0.89)
• Drones lower political, economic, and ethical costs of war (similarity 0.89)
• Drones create a moral hazard that shifts risk onto others. (similarity 0.88)
• Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.87)
• The drone exemplifies the moral hazard of acting without bearing costs (similarity 0.87)
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. (similarity 0.85)
• The armed drone resolves a centuries-old tension in political sovereignty. (similarity 0.85)
• Drones deactivate democratic war critique by removing citizens’ exposure to death. (similarity 0.85)
• Armed drones reshape sovereignty over a state’s own subjects, not just enemies (similarity 0.85)
• The drone is a classic moral hazard example (similarity 0.84)
• Drones create a crisis in military ethos by contradicting traditional warrior values. (similarity 0.84)
• The drone state aims to replace mobilized citizen bodies with mechanical agents. (similarity 0.84)
• Drones add the remote control’s range to the weapon’s range. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Drones lower political, economic, and ethical costs of war #expands (0.70)
• Drones create a moral hazard that shifts risk onto others. #corroborates (0.55) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 588