Drone-weaponized remote control radicalizes war into one-sided killing from safe zones

Evidence

However, “projection of power” is also a euphemism that obscures the facts of wounding, killing, destroying. And to do this “without projecting vulnerability” implies that the only vulnerability will be that of the enemy, reduced to the status of a mere target. Underlying the palliative military rhetoric, as Elaine Scarry detects, the real claim is that the “successful strategy is one in which the injuring occurs only in one direction… . Thus, the original definition, which seems to posit noninjuring against injuring, instead posits one-directional injuring against two-directional injuring.” By prolonging and radicalizing preexisting tendencies, the armed drone goes to the very limit: for whoever uses such a weapon, it becomes a priori impossible to die as one kills. Warfare, from being possibly asymmetrical, becomes absolutely unilateral. What could still claim to be combat is converted into a campaign of what is, quite simply, slaughter. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 111 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A remote-controlled suicide bomber is essentially a human drone; The drone’s impossibility of capture deliberately converts kill into the only option — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 544; Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1 (+27 more)

Related

• Unilateral drone warfare collapses war into a one-sided putting-to-death (similarity 0.94)
• Radical protection from death transforms war into one-sided slaughter or hunting (similarity 0.92)
• The drone made warfare absolutely unilateral, killing without risk of being killed (similarity 0.92)
• Remote weapons make war unilateral with deaths confined to the enemy side (similarity 0.91)
• Armed drones make killing a priori one-directional, converting combat into slaughter. (similarity 0.91)
• Remote-controlled weapons treat the enemy as dangerous material to be eliminated unilaterally (similarity 0.88)
• Drones add the remote control’s range to the weapon’s range. (similarity 0.88)
• Drone warfare pits unburdened machines against bodies bound by physical limits. (similarity 0.87)
• The drone’s impossibility of capture deliberately converts kill into the only option (similarity 0.87)
• Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.87)
• Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace (similarity 0.85)
• A remote-controlled suicide bomber is essentially a human drone (similarity 0.85)
• Remote killing removes reciprocal constraints that traditionally shaped warrior morality. (similarity 0.85)
• Drones multiplied ballistic reach by adding remote-control distance to weapon range (similarity 0.84)
• Unilateral drone killing makes the legal right to kill merely formal. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Unilateral drone warfare collapses war into a one-sided putting-to-death #corroborates (0.90)
• Armed drones make killing a priori one-directional, converting combat into slaughter. #corroborates (0.90) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 111
• Remote weapons make war unilateral with deaths confined to the enemy side #corroborates (0.85)
• Remote-controlled weapons treat the enemy as dangerous material to be eliminated unilaterally #corroborates (0.80) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 142
• Drones multiplied ballistic reach by adding remote-control distance to weapon range #expands (0.60)
• Drone assassination reframes war as social defense through preventive security measures #complicates (0.50)
• Drone warfare fuses killing and caring into a single integrated gesture #complicates (0.50) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 461
• Drone war turns strategic evaluation into disconnected body counts. #expands (0.50) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 282
• Drone warfare is a war without losses and without victory #complicates (0.50)
• Drones lower political, economic, and ethical costs of war #expands (0.50)