Modern military strategy deliberately destroys civilian life-support systems.

Evidence

As can be surmised, the execution of such a military strategy, especially when combined with the imposition of sanctions, results in shutting down the enemy’s life-support system. The enduring damage to civilian life is particularly telling. For example, the destruction of the Pancevo petrochemical complex in the outskirts of Belgrade during the Kosovo campaign “left the vicinity so toxic with vinyl chloride, ammonia, mercury, naphtha and dioxin that pregnant women were directed to seek abortions, and all local women were advised to avoid pregnancy for two years.” — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 120

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete instance of necropolitics — violence targeting the biological reproduction of a population — feeding the reader’s biopolitics/necropolitics scaffolding.