Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons.

Evidence

The attempt to eradicate all direct reciprocity in any exposure to hostile violence transforms not only the material conduct of armed violence technically, tactically, and psychically, but also the traditional principles of a military ethos officially based on bravery and a sense of sacrifice. Judged by the yardstick of such classical categories, a drone looks like the weapon of cowards. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 125

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Drones create a crisis in military ethos by contradicting traditional warrior values. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 350; Pilot resistance to drones inscribed a threat to masculine virility through risk-taking. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 354; Drones deactivate democratic war critique by removing citizens’ exposure to death. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 575 (+5 more)

Related

• Drones create a crisis in military ethos by contradicting traditional warrior values. (similarity 0.91)
• Drones deactivate democratic war critique by removing citizens’ exposure to death. (similarity 0.90)
• Armed drones make killing a priori one-directional, converting combat into slaughter. (similarity 0.89)
• Drone war turns strategic evaluation into disconnected body counts. (similarity 0.88)
• Drones lower political, economic, and ethical costs of war (similarity 0.88)
• Faceless blurry drone imagery reduces moral resistance to killing (similarity 0.87)
• Drones create a moral hazard that shifts risk onto others. (similarity 0.87)
• Drone warfare deactivates the democratic critique rooted in exposable lives (similarity 0.87)
• Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace (similarity 0.87)
• Drone design produces a strong moral buffering effect on operators (similarity 0.87)
• Drone use lowers the threshold so violence becomes the default foreign policy option. (similarity 0.87)
• Drone-weaponized remote control radicalizes war into one-sided killing from safe zones (similarity 0.87)
• Drones add the remote control’s range to the weapon’s range. (similarity 0.86)
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. (similarity 0.86)
• The drone state aims to replace mobilized citizen bodies with mechanical agents. (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Drone-weaponized remote control radicalizes war into one-sided killing from safe zones #expands (0.75)
• Drone warfare deactivates the democratic critique rooted in exposable lives #expands (0.70)
• Faceless blurry drone imagery reduces moral resistance to killing #complicates (0.65) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 404
• Drones create a moral hazard that shifts risk onto others. #expands (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 588
• Drones transform war from combat-defined zones into pursuit-defined hunting grounds. #expands (0.55) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 230