Manhunting replaces Clausewitz’s duel with a hunter-prey asymmetry

Evidence

Contrary to Carl von Clausewitz’s classical definition, the fundamental structure of this type of warfare is no longer that of a duel, of two fighters facing each other. The paradigm is quite different: a hunter advancing on a prey that flees or hides from him. The rules of the game are not the same. “In the competition between two enemy combatants,” wrote Crawford, “the goal is to win the battle by defeating the adversary: both combatants must confront to win. However, a manhunt scenario differs in that each player’s strategy is different. The fugitive always wants to avoid capture; the pursuer must confront to win, whereas the fugitive must evade to win.” The hostile relationship now boils down, as in a game of hide-and-seek, to “a competition between the hiders and the seekers.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 171

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the paradigm shift from duel to hunt, with asymmetric goals for pursuer and fugitive.
• XREF: connects to: The hunter-state model redefines armed violence around pursuing prey rather than fixed territory.; Global war on terror is better understood as manhunting than combat; Hunting, unlike combat, defines violence by the prey’s location (+7 more)

Related

• Hunting, unlike combat, defines violence by the prey’s location (similarity 0.95)
• The hunter-state model redefines armed violence around pursuing prey rather than fixed territory. (similarity 0.93)
• Global war on terror is better understood as manhunting than combat (similarity 0.92)
• Extreme asymmetry in vulnerability transforms war into hunting or slaughter (similarity 0.87)
• Militarized manhunting combines warfare and policing into a new state violence (similarity 0.87)
• Drone warfare replaces combat’s duel with a hunter-prey hide-and-seek structure (similarity 0.82)
• Radical protection from death transforms war into one-sided slaughter or hunting (similarity 0.81)
• Drones transform war from combat-defined zones into pursuit-defined hunting grounds. (similarity 0.79)
• Drone war’s core task shifted from destroying enemies to finding and tracking them (similarity 0.79)
• Terror’s content is hunting objective enemies once real ones are exterminated (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Radical protection from death transforms war into one-sided slaughter or hunting #expands (0.75)
• Drone warfare replaces combat’s duel with a hunter-prey hide-and-seek structure #corroborates (0.70)
• Militarized manhunting combines warfare and policing into a new state violence #expands (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 164