Remote-controlled warfare was predicted to radicalize the asymmetry between imperial powers and colonized peoples

Evidence

It would be a utopia, with warfare converted into a tournament of machines—battles without soldiers, conflicts with no victims. However, the reader, who was no fool, concluded with a quite different scenario, one that, sad to say, was far more realistic: “Far-flung imperial conquests which were ours because we had the Maxim gun and they had the knobkerry will be recalled by new bloodless triumphs coming our way because we have telechiric yeomanry and they, poor fuzzy-wuzzies, have only napalm and nerve-gas.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 141

Categorization

• XREF: Directly anticipates the reader’s ‘imperial impunity’ theme and echoes the earlier Maxim-gun asymmetry argument. — connects to: Telechiric warfare was predicted to radicalize imperial asymmetry rather than end war; Imperial power shifted from occupying territory to dominating it from the air. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 234; Remote-controlled weapons treat the enemy as dangerous material to be eliminated unilaterally — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 142 (+5 more)
• SEED: Could anchor an essay on how supposedly humanitarian military technology quietly reproduces colonial violence asymmetries.

Broader Connections

• Drone-weaponized remote control radicalizes war into one-sided killing from safe zones #exemplifies (0.85)
• Modern drone asymmetry is a continuation of colonial weapons double standards #corroborates (0.80)
• Drone warfare establishes a norm neither war nor peace via imperial immunity #expands (0.75)