Drone warfare establishes a norm neither war nor peace via imperial immunity

Evidence

According to this view of military morality, to kill while exposing one’s own life is bad; to take lives without ever endangering one’s own is good. That first principle of drone necroethics is, paradoxically, vitalist. And it is in accordance with this logic that the drone can be said to be a “humanitarian” weapon: the humanitarian imperative is to save lives. And the drone does indeed save our lives. It is therefore a humanitarian technology. QED. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 453 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace; Modern drone asymmetry is a continuation of colonial weapons double standards; What is new about imperial violence is its quasi-invulnerability being set as a norm (+25 more)

Related

• Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace (similarity 0.95)
• Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace (similarity 0.94)
• The drone made warfare absolutely unilateral, killing without risk of being killed (similarity 0.88)
• Jus in bello norms applied to drones convert combat ethics into necroethics (similarity 0.88)
• Drone morality inverts ethics to make unendangered killing good (similarity 0.87)
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. (similarity 0.87)
• Drone warfare adopts assassination ethics while refusing assassination’s self-sacrifice (similarity 0.87)
• Drones’ necroethics embody a nationalism of self-preservation (similarity 0.86)
• Drones are morally justified by preventing one’s own casualties (similarity 0.86)
• The armed drone resolves a centuries-old tension in political sovereignty. (similarity 0.86)
• Drone warfare deactivates the democratic critique rooted in exposable lives (similarity 0.86)
• Armed drones reshape sovereignty over a state’s own subjects, not just enemies (similarity 0.86)
• The drone state aims to replace mobilized citizen bodies with mechanical agents. (similarity 0.85)
• Unilateral drone killing makes the legal right to kill merely formal. (similarity 0.85)
• Unilateral drone warfare collapses war into a one-sided putting-to-death (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Unilateral drone warfare collapses war into a one-sided putting-to-death #expands (0.80)
• Drone morality inverts ethics to make unendangered killing good #expands (0.75) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 453
• Drone warfare is a war without losses and without victory #expands (0.70)
• Drone warfare adopts assassination ethics while refusing assassination’s self-sacrifice #expands (0.70)
• Drone warfare operates everywhere rather than only on defined battlefields #expands (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 827
• Risk-free drone operators morally resemble assassins, not soldiers #expands (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 509
• Drones undermine the tacit geographic limits built into the laws of war #expands (0.65) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 851
• The drone resolved a centuries-old contradiction in the theory of state sovereignty over war #expands (0.60)
• Drone assassination reframes war as social defense through preventive security measures #complicates (0.60)
• Humanitarian drone justification rests on a logic of the lesser evil #complicates (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 463