Drone warfare replaces combat’s duel with a hunter-prey hide-and-seek structure

Evidence

While warfare is defined, in the last analysis, by combat, hunting is essentially defined by pursuit. Two distinct types of geography correspond to the two activities. Combat bursts out wherever opposing forces clash. Hunting, on the other hand, takes place wherever the prey goes. As a hunter-state sees it, armed violence is no longer defined within the boundaries of a demarcated zone but simply by the presence of an enemy-prey who, so to speak, carries with it its own little mobile zone of hostility. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 230 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The geographer Derek Gregory explains the “need to analyse not only the ‘forever war’ but also what we might call the ‘everywhere war.’ ” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 827 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hunting, unlike combat, defines violence by the prey’s location; Drone warfare adopts assassination ethics while refusing assassination’s self-sacrifice; Unilateral drone warfare collapses war into a one-sided putting-to-death (+6 more)

Related

• Drones transform war from combat-defined zones into pursuit-defined hunting grounds. (similarity 0.94)
• Drone war’s core task shifted from destroying enemies to finding and tracking them (similarity 0.93)
• Drones transformed from surveillance eyes into weapons almost by chance. (similarity 0.87)
• The Afghanistan war instantly validated drones as central to future US military strategy. (similarity 0.87)
• Hunting, unlike combat, defines violence by the prey’s location (similarity 0.86)
• Drone warfare operates everywhere rather than only on defined battlefields (similarity 0.86)
• Drones undermine the tacit geographic limits built into the laws of war (similarity 0.85)
• Drones resolve the guerrilla problem by depriving insurgents of any target to attack. (similarity 0.84)
• Drone warfare pits unburdened machines against bodies bound by physical limits. (similarity 0.83)
• Drones evolved from surveillance eyes into lethal hunter-killer weapons. (similarity 0.83)
• Extreme asymmetry in vulnerability transforms war into hunting or slaughter (similarity 0.83)
• Armed drones make killing a priori one-directional, converting combat into slaughter. (similarity 0.82)
• Drones add the remote control’s range to the weapon’s range. (similarity 0.82)
• Manhunting replaces Clausewitz’s duel with a hunter-prey asymmetry (similarity 0.82)
• The hunter-state model redefines armed violence around pursuing prey rather than fixed territory. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Drones transform war from combat-defined zones into pursuit-defined hunting grounds. #corroborates (0.90) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 230
• Drone war’s core task shifted from destroying enemies to finding and tracking them #corroborates (0.85)
• Drone warfare operates everywhere rather than only on defined battlefields #expands (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 827