Drones designed for foreign wars await domestic use unless blocked

Evidence

One of the questions that arises is whether societies that have, for the time being, failed to rule out the use of this type of technology in wars waged on the other side of the world will eventually realize, perhaps with a jolt, that this technology is designed to be used on them too, and whether they will mobilize themselves to block its use. For it is important for them to become aware that a future of video surveillance with armed drones awaits us if we don’t prevent it. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 641

Categorization

• QUESTION: Has any subsequent evidence borne out domestic armed-drone adoption since 2012?
• XREF: connects to: Homemade drones can become unconventional weapons capable of penetrating secure areas — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 304; Domestic drone policing will make citizens potential targets — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 637

Related

• Domestic drone policing will make citizens potential targets (similarity 0.88)
• Homemade drones can become unconventional weapons capable of penetrating secure areas (similarity 0.86)
• Drone use lowers the threshold so violence becomes the default foreign policy option. (similarity 0.83)
• Drone patrols grew 1,200 percent from 2004 to 2012 while defense shrank. (similarity 0.81)
• Drones transformed from surveillance eyes into weapons almost by chance. (similarity 0.81)
• Drones undermine the tacit geographic limits built into the laws of war (similarity 0.79)
• Armed drones reshape sovereignty over a state’s own subjects, not just enemies (similarity 0.79)
• Low cost of drone warfare removes congressional restraint on military action (similarity 0.79)
• Drones evolved from surveillance eyes into lethal hunter-killer weapons. (similarity 0.79)
• The armed drone resolves a centuries-old tension in political sovereignty. (similarity 0.78)
• The drone resolved a centuries-old contradiction in the theory of state sovereignty over war (similarity 0.78)
• Present-day drones combine remote control and autonomous piloting. (similarity 0.78)
• Drones add the remote control’s range to the weapon’s range. (similarity 0.78)
• Drones multiplied ballistic reach by adding remote-control distance to weapon range (similarity 0.78)