Remote-controlled weapons treat the enemy as dangerous material to be eliminated unilaterally

Evidence

Once the remotely controlled machine becomes a weapon of war, it is the enemy who is treated as a dangerous material. He can be eliminated from afar as one watches on a screen, softly enclosed within a climatized “safe zone.” Asymmetrical warfare becomes radicalized, unilateral. Of course people would still die, but only on one side. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 142

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s goal of understanding impunity and ‘neither war nor peace’: death becomes one-sided, the enemy merely a material to be processed. — connects to: Remote warfare will shift trauma study from victims to perpetrators; Drone-weaponized remote control radicalizes war into one-sided killing from safe zones; Soviet dead hand system could launch retaliatory missiles without human action (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Remote-controlled warfare was predicted to radicalize the asymmetry between imperial powers and colonized peoples #expands (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 141
• Drone assassination reframes war as social defense through preventive security measures #responds-to (0.60)