Protecting national lives through drones increases their social precariousness.

Evidence

On the face of it, the drone appears as the solution to the central contradiction of the discourse of protective sovereignty: wage war without endangering the lives of one’s own subjects, preserve without loss, always protect. But here comes the bad news: the promise to preserve national lives goes hand in hand with the increased social vulnerability and precariousness of many of those lives. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 607

Categorization

• XREF: The paradox the reader sought: impunity for imperial combatants paired with abandonment of the domestic citizenry. — connects to: Drones’ necroethics embody a nationalism of self-preservation; Protecting national lives in war increases those lives’ social precariousness; Drone assassination reframes war as social defense through preventive security measures (+7 more)

Related

• Protecting national lives in war increases those lives’ social precariousness (similarity 0.93)
• Drones’ necroethics embody a nationalism of self-preservation (similarity 0.92)
• Drone assassination reframes war as social defense through preventive security measures (similarity 0.92)
• Drones deactivate democratic war critique by removing citizens’ exposure to death. (similarity 0.86)
• The drone state aims to replace mobilized citizen bodies with mechanical agents. (similarity 0.86)
• Drones create a moral hazard that shifts risk onto others. (similarity 0.85)
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. (similarity 0.85)
• Drone warfare deactivates the democratic critique rooted in exposable lives (similarity 0.84)
• Armed drones reshape sovereignty over a state’s own subjects, not just enemies (similarity 0.84)
• Hyperprotecting soldiers shifts the burden of risk onto civilians (similarity 0.84)
• Preserving one’s own soldiers has become a quasi-absolute imperative excluding sacrifice. (similarity 0.84)
• Drone warfare establishes a norm neither war nor peace via imperial immunity (similarity 0.83)
• Drone technology erodes the soldier’s defining scorn of death. (similarity 0.83)
• The armed drone resolves a centuries-old tension in political sovereignty. (similarity 0.82)
• Drone morality inverts ethics to make unendangered killing good (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Drones fuse killing and caring into an integrated humilitarian power #expands (0.60)
• Drones are morally justified by preventing one’s own casualties #contradicts (0.55)
• Armed drones reshape sovereignty over a state’s own subjects, not just enemies #expands (0.50)