Modern drone asymmetry is a continuation of colonial weapons double standards

Evidence

First it must be pointed out that the development of the remote war technology issues from the weakness, not strength of American capitalism. In fact, this technology signifies further estrangement of the system from the American people. The Air War was developed because the American Army was no longer trustworthy. Remote warfare will come into being because this war and any future wars waged by the American Imperialists to control the world are no longer politically acceptable to the American people. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 722 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

As Kenneth Anderson recalls, critics were alarmed by the fact that “the emergence of technologies for targeted killing using drones … has the possibility of disturbing and undermining a mostly tacit underpinning to the laws of war: an implied geography of war.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 851 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: RAF air control in the 1920s produced the same alienation drone strikes cause today; Drone warfare establishes a norm neither war nor peace via imperial immunity; Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1 (+6 more)

Related

• Remote-controlled warfare was predicted to radicalize the asymmetry between imperial powers and colonized peoples (similarity 0.89)
• Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace (similarity 0.88)
• Telechiric warfare was predicted to radicalize imperial asymmetry rather than end war (similarity 0.87)
• Drones undermine the tacit geographic limits built into the laws of war (similarity 0.87)
• Drone warfare emerged from political weakness of empire, not technological strength. (similarity 0.87)
• Remote weapons make war unilateral with deaths confined to the enemy side (similarity 0.85)
• Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace (similarity 0.84)
• Drone warfare operates everywhere rather than only on defined battlefields (similarity 0.84)
• Drone warfare establishes a norm neither war nor peace via imperial immunity (similarity 0.83)
• Remote-controlled weapons treat the enemy as dangerous material to be eliminated unilaterally (similarity 0.82)
• Drone strikes outside declared battlefields violate international law (similarity 0.82)
• Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.82)
• Telechiric operation implies an asymmetrical frontier between a safe zone and a hostile one (similarity 0.82)
• Drone strikes occur in countries officially at peace, not just war zones. (similarity 0.81)
• The armed drone resolves a centuries-old tension in political sovereignty. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Drone warfare establishes a norm neither war nor peace via imperial immunity #exemplifies (0.70)
• Drone warfare emerged from political weakness of empire, not technological strength. #corroborates (0.65) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 722
• Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace #exemplifies (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 1
• Drones undermine the tacit geographic limits built into the laws of war #expands (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 851
• Drone warfare operates everywhere rather than only on defined battlefields #expands (0.55) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 827