Remote warfare will shift trauma study from victims to perpetrators

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Distant warfare shifts psychiatry from victims’ trauma to perpetrators’ guilt.; Remote weapons make war unilateral with deaths confined to the enemy side; Remote-controlled weapons treat the enemy as dangerous material to be eliminated unilaterally — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 142 (+1 more)

Related

• Remote-controlled weapons treat the enemy as dangerous material to be eliminated unilaterally (similarity 0.89)
• Remote weapons make war unilateral with deaths confined to the enemy side (similarity 0.89)
• Distant warfare shifts psychiatry from victims’ trauma to perpetrators’ guilt. (similarity 0.86)
• Drone-weaponized remote control radicalizes war into one-sided killing from safe zones (similarity 0.83)
• Remote-controlled machines were proposed as a third option beyond protected men or autonomous machines (similarity 0.82)
• Distant violence can become more graphic rather than more abstract (similarity 0.82)
• Remote killing removes reciprocal constraints that traditionally shaped warrior morality. (similarity 0.82)
• Drones add the remote control’s range to the weapon’s range. (similarity 0.80)
• Drone warfare pits unburdened machines against bodies bound by physical limits. (similarity 0.80)
• Great distance lets soldiers deny they are killing humans (similarity 0.79)
• Telechiric warfare was predicted to radicalize imperial asymmetry rather than end war (similarity 0.79)
• Remote-controlled warfare was predicted to radicalize the asymmetry between imperial powers and colonized peoples (similarity 0.79)
• Radical protection from death transforms war into one-sided slaughter or hunting (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Distant warfare shifts psychiatry from victims’ trauma to perpetrators’ guilt. #expands (0.90)
• Remote weapons make war unilateral with deaths confined to the enemy side #expands (0.80)
• Remote-controlled weapons treat the enemy as dangerous material to be eliminated unilaterally #expands (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 142
• Distant violence can become more graphic rather than more abstract #complicates (0.60)