Drones create a crisis in military ethos by contradicting traditional warrior values.

Evidence

The problem here is that in the light of traditional values, killing by drones—crushing the enemy without ever risking one’s own skin—is still seen as the highest degree of cowardice and dishonor. The clash between the technical reality of the conduct of the war and its residual ideology presents a powerful contradiction even for the personnel of the armed forces. For them, the clash between these new weapons and the old frameworks that may be outmoded but are nonetheless influential produces a crisis in military ethos. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 350

Categorization

• XREF: The internal contradiction of drones-with-old-warrior-ideology speaks directly to the reader’s interest in shifting war/peace norms. — connects to: Drone technology erodes the soldier’s defining scorn of death.; Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 125; Drones abolish the condition of combat that makes combatants identifiable. (+2 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 350

Related

• Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.91)
• Drone technology erodes the soldier’s defining scorn of death. (similarity 0.88)
• Armed drones make killing a priori one-directional, converting combat into slaughter. (similarity 0.87)
• Drones abolish the condition of combat that makes combatants identifiable. (similarity 0.86)
• Drones deactivate democratic war critique by removing citizens’ exposure to death. (similarity 0.86)
• Drones’ necroethics embody a nationalism of self-preservation (similarity 0.86)
• Drone morality inverts ethics to make unendangered killing good (similarity 0.85)
• Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace (similarity 0.85)
• The drone state aims to replace mobilized citizen bodies with mechanical agents. (similarity 0.85)
• Drones lower political, economic, and ethical costs of war (similarity 0.85)
• Jus in bello norms applied to drones convert combat ethics into necroethics (similarity 0.85)
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. (similarity 0.85)
• Air Force pilots resisted drones partly because unmanning threatened their virility. (similarity 0.84)
• Drone use lowers the threshold so violence becomes the default foreign policy option. (similarity 0.84)
• Armed drones reshape sovereignty over a state’s own subjects, not just enemies (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. #expands (0.80) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 125
• Drone technology erodes the soldier’s defining scorn of death. #expands (0.70)
• Drones abolish the condition of combat that makes combatants identifiable. #expands (0.70)
• Drone morality inverts ethics to make unendangered killing good #expands (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 453