Externalizing war costs converts democratic pacifism into democratic militarism.

Evidence

As soon as the costs of war become an external matter, the very theoretical model that proclaimed the arrival of a democratic pacifism begins to predict the opposite: a democratic militarism. When it came to approving or rejecting going to war, citizens who were now immunized against the vital demands of warfare found themselves in more or less the same position as the shallow sovereign whose irresponsibility Kant deplored. As for their leaders, they at last had a free hand. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 584

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the democratic-peace theory inverted by risk externalization is a strong essay thesis for critique of drone policy.
• XREF: connects to: Externalizing war risks makes violence the default policy option; Externalizing the human cost of war makes wars more frequent and bloodier. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 583; Drone warfare deactivates the democratic critique rooted in exposable lives (+1 more)

Related

• Externalizing war risks makes violence the default policy option (similarity 0.88)
• Drones deactivate democratic war critique by removing citizens’ exposure to death. (similarity 0.86)
• Drone warfare deactivates the democratic critique rooted in exposable lives (similarity 0.84)
• Drones lower political, economic, and ethical costs of war (similarity 0.84)
• Externalizing the human cost of war makes wars more frequent and bloodier. (similarity 0.83)
• Drone use lowers the threshold so violence becomes the default foreign policy option. (similarity 0.81)
• Drone technology erodes the soldier’s defining scorn of death. (similarity 0.80)
• Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.80)
• The drone state aims to replace mobilized citizen bodies with mechanical agents. (similarity 0.80)
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. (similarity 0.80)
• Low cost of drone warfare removes congressional restraint on military action (similarity 0.79)
• Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace (similarity 0.79)
• Drone assassination reframes war as social defense through preventive security measures (similarity 0.79)
• Drone war turns strategic evaluation into disconnected body counts. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Externalizing the human cost of war makes wars more frequent and bloodier. #corroborates (0.80) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 583
• Drone warfare deactivates the democratic critique rooted in exposable lives #exemplifies (0.70)
• Drones deactivate democratic war critique by removing citizens’ exposure to death. #exemplifies (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 575