Drones are less precise than rifles and grenades at discriminating targets.
Evidence
In other words, the argument here is that, so far as the capacity for discrimination goes, the drone technology destroys the traditionally established link between visual acuteness and physical proximity. The proximity of the operator is no longer necessarily a pertinent factor in the identification of targets. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1016 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Drone technology severs visual discrimination from physical proximity to targets. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1016; Weapon precision cannot improve the adequacy of target identification.; Drone surveillance cannot reliably distinguish combatants from civilians (+1 more)
Related
- Drone surveillance cannot reliably distinguish combatants from civilians (similarity 0.92)
- Weapon precision cannot improve the adequacy of target identification. (similarity 0.90)
- Drones produce constant terror because targets never know when they are tracked. (similarity 0.89)
- Drone technology severs visual discrimination from physical proximity to targets. (similarity 0.89)
- Drones are nondiscriminatory because excluding combat erases the combatant-noncombatant distinction. (similarity 0.87)
- Drone surveillance transforms the panopticon from a punishing to an annihilating gaze. (similarity 0.86)
- Drones abolish the condition of combat that makes combatants identifiable. (similarity 0.86)
- The drone should be judged against equivalent tactical weapons, not older bombers (similarity 0.85)
- Drone killing is reduced to clicking on tiny on-screen figures (similarity 0.84)
- Drone targeting hinged on remote visual guesses about sex and combatant status (similarity 0.84)
- Precision of a strike says nothing about target discrimination (similarity 0.84)
- Drone strikes depend on a network of remote invisible human observers (similarity 0.84)
- Drone precision claims will fail in actual battle conditions (similarity 0.83)
- Drone missiles have larger lethal radii than conventional infantry weapons (similarity 0.83)
- Drone imagery functions as targeting rather than representation (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Weapon precision cannot improve the adequacy of target identification.
#complicates(0.60) - Drone surveillance cannot reliably distinguish combatants from civilians
#expands(0.55) - Drone technology severs visual discrimination from physical proximity to targets.
#complicates(0.50) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1016 - Most drone strikes target suspects whose identity is unknown at the moment of killing.
#exemplifies(0.40) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 211