Geocentric war law is attacked to justify lethal policing beyond borders
Evidence
The geocentric interpretation of the laws of warfare must be thrown overboard, they obediently insist, because to extend it would in effect “create sanctuaries for terrorist organizations in any state … in which law enforcement is known to be ineffective.” But that argument, lurking beneath the semantic debate, also reveals what is at stake politically: it aims to justify the use of lethal policing powers regardless of borders. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 248
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the asymmetry between how drone combatants claim impunity while wearing police-like powers across borders. — connects to: Claimed technical precision is used to justify global extension of lethal force.; The proposed hybrid legal regime grants a global right of lethal policing; Drone strikes outside declared battlefields violate international law — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 251 (+5 more)
Related
- Police preponderance over the military encodes a regime’s claim to global rule (similarity 0.89)
- The proposed hybrid legal regime grants a global right of lethal policing (similarity 0.88)
- Soldiers and police have fundamentally different legal rules for lethal force (similarity 0.86)
- Drones undermine the tacit geographic limits built into the laws of war (similarity 0.86)
- Claimed technical precision is used to justify global extension of lethal force. (similarity 0.86)
- A legal hybrid of war and policing grants a global license to kill (similarity 0.85)
- Drone warfare operates everywhere rather than only on defined battlefields (similarity 0.85)
- Drone strikes outside declared battlefields violate international law (similarity 0.84)
- Great distance lets soldiers deny they are killing humans (similarity 0.83)
- Target-centered battlefield logic legally licenses worldwide execution of suspects (similarity 0.82)
- Some advocates propose a new legal regime of unconstrained lethal self-defense (similarity 0.81)
- The combatant-to-militant shift expands the right to kill indefinitely (similarity 0.81)
- Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace (similarity 0.80)
- Modern drone asymmetry is a continuation of colonial weapons double standards (similarity 0.80)
- Drones cannot comply with law-enforcement rules because they offer no graded force options (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- A legal hybrid of war and policing grants a global license to kill
#expands(0.80) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 553 - Drones undermine the tacit geographic limits built into the laws of war
#corroborates(0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 851 - Soldiers and police have fundamentally different legal rules for lethal force
#corroborates(0.50) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 539 - Great distance lets soldiers deny they are killing humans
#corroborates(0.45) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 399