Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace

Evidence

In Chamayou’s razor-sharp telling, drones fundamentally transform the psychic, moral, and physical space and art of killing. But it is his theory of the drone that is even more chilling. It demands that we consider the emergence of a new ethical and political norm of war that is neither war as we know it—nor peace. The ‘principle of immunity for the imperial combatant’ rests on a twisted logic: On the one hand is the achieved capacity of the drone operative (one of many newly installed masters of ‘lethal surveillance’) to move throughout a day between killing fields and coffee breaks, between combat zones and home. On the other hand is the enlisting of a citizenry to accept the ‘moral obligation’ to kill. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Drone warfare establishes a norm neither war nor peace via imperial immunity; Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1; Drone warfare is a war without losses and without victory (+22 more)

Related

• Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace (similarity 0.96)
• Drone warfare establishes a norm neither war nor peace via imperial immunity (similarity 0.95)
• The drone made warfare absolutely unilateral, killing without risk of being killed (similarity 0.89)
• Jus in bello norms applied to drones convert combat ethics into necroethics (similarity 0.89)
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. (similarity 0.88)
• Drone warfare adopts assassination ethics while refusing assassination’s self-sacrifice (similarity 0.88)
• Drones lower political, economic, and ethical costs of war (similarity 0.88)
• Drone warfare deactivates the democratic critique rooted in exposable lives (similarity 0.88)
• Drone war turns strategic evaluation into disconnected body counts. (similarity 0.87)
• Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.87)
• Unilateral drone warfare collapses war into a one-sided putting-to-death (similarity 0.87)
• Unilateral drone killing makes the legal right to kill merely formal. (similarity 0.87)
• The armed drone resolves a centuries-old tension in political sovereignty. (similarity 0.87)
• Armed drones make killing a priori one-directional, converting combat into slaughter. (similarity 0.86)
• Drones’ necroethics embody a nationalism of self-preservation (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Drone warfare establishes a norm neither war nor peace via imperial immunity #corroborates (0.95)
• Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace #corroborates (0.90) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1
• Drone warfare is a war without losses and without victory #expands (0.70)
• Unilateral drone warfare collapses war into a one-sided putting-to-death #expands (0.70)
• Drones lower political, economic, and ethical costs of war #expands (0.65)
• Drone morality inverts ethics to make unendangered killing good #expands (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 453
• Drone warfare deactivates the democratic critique rooted in exposable lives #expands (0.60)
• Jus in bello norms applied to drones convert combat ethics into necroethics #expands (0.60)
• Drones deactivate democratic war critique by removing citizens’ exposure to death. #expands (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 575
• Drone warfare adopts assassination ethics while refusing assassination’s self-sacrifice #expands (0.55)
• Drones undermine the tacit geographic limits built into the laws of war #expands (0.55) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 851
• Drones fuse killing and caring into an integrated humilitarian power #expands (0.50)
• Risk-free drone operators morally resemble assassins, not soldiers #expands (0.50) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 509