Substituting capital for soldiers gives the state social autonomy

Evidence

What is at stake in the process of dronization is the establishment of a balance between the withering of the state’s social branch and the maintenance of its armed branch. And here we come to understand concretely what lies beneath the premise of “zero losses” and the absolute preservation of national lives. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 606 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The sociologist Beverly Silver explains that in the model that prevailed up until the 1970s, the industrialization of warfare, combined with the importance of numbers and the central place of the working classes and the maintenance of mass conscription, put Western leaders in a position of close social dependency in the exercise of military power. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 596 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: State dependence on soldiers’ bodies secured social bargaining power; Dronization trades the state’s social branch for its armed branch. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 606; State power depends materially on the bodies citizens lend it. (+6 more)

Related

• Dronization trades the state’s social branch for its armed branch. (similarity 0.92)
• State dependence on soldiers’ bodies secured social bargaining power (similarity 0.91)
• Capitalized warfare reverses workers’ and citizens’ bargaining power over states. (similarity 0.87)
• Mass conscription made leaders socially dependent on working classes for war. (similarity 0.84)
• State power depends materially on the bodies citizens lend it. (similarity 0.82)
• State power depends on borrowing the bodies of its subjects (similarity 0.82)
• Dronization aims to replace soldier bodies with mechanical agents. (similarity 0.80)
• Dronization aims to build a bodiless state force of pure machines (similarity 0.79)
• The drone state aims to replace mobilized citizen bodies with mechanical agents. (similarity 0.79)
• Armed drones reshape sovereignty over a state’s own subjects, not just enemies (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Dronization trades the state’s social branch for its armed branch. #corroborates (0.80) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 606
• Armed drones reshape sovereignty over a state’s own subjects, not just enemies #corroborates (0.80)
• Mass conscription made leaders socially dependent on working classes for war. #contradicts (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 596
• Capitalized warfare reverses workers’ and citizens’ bargaining power over states. #corroborates (0.70) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 600
• State power depends on borrowing the bodies of its subjects #contradicts (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 695
• State power depends materially on the bodies citizens lend it. #corroborates (0.55)
• Military recruitment support could be traded for political concessions on citizenship #qualifies (0.50)