Drones undermine the tacit geographic limits built into the laws of war
Evidence
As Kenneth Anderson recalls, critics were alarmed by the fact that “the emergence of technologies for targeted killing using drones … has the possibility of disturbing and undermining a mostly tacit underpinning to the laws of war: an implied geography of war.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 851
Categorization
- XREF: Pairs directly with Gregory’s ‘everywhere war’ frame at location 827. — connects to: Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace; Modern drone asymmetry is a continuation of colonial weapons double standards; Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1 (+13 more)
Related
- Drone warfare operates everywhere rather than only on defined battlefields (similarity 0.93)
- Modern drone asymmetry is a continuation of colonial weapons double standards (similarity 0.87)
- Geocentric war law is attacked to justify lethal policing beyond borders (similarity 0.86)
- Drone warfare replaces combat’s duel with a hunter-prey hide-and-seek structure (similarity 0.85)
- Historical continuity of remote killing does not justify drones (similarity 0.84)
- Drones transform war from combat-defined zones into pursuit-defined hunting grounds. (similarity 0.84)
- Drones add the remote control’s range to the weapon’s range. (similarity 0.84)
- Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace (similarity 0.83)
- Drone strikes outside declared battlefields violate international law (similarity 0.83)
- Drone strikes occur in countries officially at peace, not just war zones. (similarity 0.82)
- Drones multiplied ballistic reach by adding remote-control distance to weapon range (similarity 0.82)
- Armed drones make killing a priori one-directional, converting combat into slaughter. (similarity 0.82)
- Drones abolish the condition of combat that makes combatants identifiable. (similarity 0.81)
- Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.81)
- Drone warfare pits unburdened machines against bodies bound by physical limits. (similarity 0.81)