Officers feared manhunting doctrine would echo Vietnam’s Phoenix Program.

Evidence

The drone was regarded as the low-cost weapon par excellence, in accordance with a double logic of economy, with respect to “the value of the human lives involved, and the financial costs” … The press, picking up on these arguments, regarded the projects for armed drones as the solution to the political contradictions of the Vietnam War: “The intensified bombings of North Vietnam since the beginning of the year has swelled the ranks of the more than 1600 American servicemen believed held prisoner in Indochina. Taking the pilots out of the bombers will remove a serious obstacle to the Nixon Administration’s avowed intension to maintain American air power in South Asia.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 765 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Military officers feared drone manhunting would repeat the Vietnam Phoenix Program’s murder and torture; Armed drone projects were framed as solving Vietnam’s political contradictions — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 765

Related

• Armed drone projects were framed as solving Vietnam’s political contradictions (similarity 0.90)
• Military officers feared drone manhunting would repeat the Vietnam Phoenix Program’s murder and torture (similarity 0.90)
• dronization of soldiers was a precondition for the pure drone (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Military officers feared drone manhunting would repeat the Vietnam Phoenix Program’s murder and torture #corroborates (0.95)
• Armed drone projects were framed as solving Vietnam’s political contradictions #expands (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 765