Drones transform war from combat-defined zones into pursuit-defined hunting grounds.

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

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the combat-versus-hunting distinction that grounds the hunt-state theory of the drone.
• XREF: connects to: Drones transformed from surveillance eyes into weapons almost by chance.; The Afghanistan war instantly validated drones as central to future US military strategy.; Drone warfare replaces combat’s duel with a hunter-prey hide-and-seek structure (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Drone warfare operates everywhere rather than only on defined battlefields #expands (0.90) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 827
• Drones undermine the tacit geographic limits built into the laws of war #expands (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 851