Target-centered battlefield logic legally licenses worldwide execution of suspects

Evidence

This would give rise to a curious legal hybrid, somewhere between warfare and policing, that could benefit from the liberalities of both regimes without being obliged to accept the constraints of either. Militarized manhunting would at last have found adequate legal expression in the shape of a global right of lethal policing. The United States would profit, since “self-defense gives the discretionary ability to attack anywhere in the world where a target is located, without having to make claims about a state of armed conflict everywhere and always across the world”21—an elegant enough solution, which, however, Philip Alston ventures to translate as “license to kill.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 553 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Claimed technical precision is used to justify global extension of lethal force.; The proposed hybrid legal regime grants a global right of lethal policing; Some advocates propose a new legal regime of unconstrained lethal self-defense (+6 more)

Related

• The proposed hybrid legal regime grants a global right of lethal policing (similarity 0.93)
• Claimed technical precision is used to justify global extension of lethal force. (similarity 0.90)
• Some advocates propose a new legal regime of unconstrained lethal self-defense (similarity 0.89)
• A legal hybrid of war and policing grants a global license to kill (similarity 0.89)
• The combatant-to-militant shift expands the right to kill indefinitely (similarity 0.87)
• Soldiers and police have fundamentally different legal rules for lethal force (similarity 0.85)
• Police preponderance over the military encodes a regime’s claim to global rule (similarity 0.83)
• Geocentric war law is attacked to justify lethal policing beyond borders (similarity 0.82)
• Legal immunity for wartime killing presupposes that the right to kill is mutual. (similarity 0.79)
• Just-cause theorists grant only the just warrior the right to kill (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• A legal hybrid of war and policing grants a global license to kill #corroborates (0.85) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 553
• The combatant-to-militant shift expands the right to kill indefinitely #corroborates (0.70)
• Right to kill depends on readiness to expose own soldiers #corroborates (0.60)
• War’s immunity from murder prosecutions rests on mutual reciprocity #complicates (0.55)
• Soldiers and police have fundamentally different legal rules for lethal force #expands (0.50) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 539