Militarized manhunting combines warfare and policing into a new state violence

Evidence

A single decade has seen the establishment of an unconventional form of state violence that combines the disparate characteristics of warfare and policing without really corresponding to either, finding conceptual and practical unity in the notion of a militarized manhunt. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 164

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines militarized manhunting as the unifying concept that fuses war and policing.
• XREF: connects to: The hunter-state model redefines armed violence around pursuing prey rather than fixed territory.; A legal hybrid of war and policing grants a global license to kill — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 553; Manhunting replaces Clausewitz’s duel with a hunter-prey asymmetry — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 171 (+9 more)

Related

• The hunter-state model redefines armed violence around pursuing prey rather than fixed territory. (similarity 0.90)
• Global war on terror is better understood as manhunting than combat (similarity 0.87)
• Manhunting replaces Clausewitz’s duel with a hunter-prey asymmetry (similarity 0.87)
• Hunting, unlike combat, defines violence by the prey’s location (similarity 0.85)
• Extreme asymmetry in vulnerability transforms war into hunting or slaughter (similarity 0.85)
• Radical protection from death transforms war into one-sided slaughter or hunting (similarity 0.84)
• A legal hybrid of war and policing grants a global license to kill (similarity 0.83)
• Terror’s content is hunting objective enemies once real ones are exterminated (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Extreme asymmetry in vulnerability transforms war into hunting or slaughter #corroborates (0.80) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 332
• Radical protection from death transforms war into one-sided slaughter or hunting #corroborates (0.80)
• Global war on terror is better understood as manhunting than combat #corroborates (0.70)
• The War on Terror legitimizes expanded police repression at home #corroborates (0.70)
• Drones transform war from combat-defined zones into pursuit-defined hunting grounds. #expands (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 230
• Countering Violent Extremism deputized local police as national security officers #expands (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 66
• Human emotions protect civilians by restraining lethal military force #contradicts (0.50) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1135