Telechiric warfare was predicted to radicalize imperial asymmetry rather than end war

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 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Space is divided into two: a hostile area and a safe one. The picture shows a sheltered power in a safe place operating in a dangerous place outside. This power, sometimes called “telearchic,” implies a frontier. But that border is asymmetrical: it must not only block intrusions from outside but also be able to open slightly in order to admit the mechanical pseudopods designed to intervene in the hostile environment. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 135 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Remote-controlled warfare was predicted to radicalize the asymmetry between imperial powers and colonized peoples — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 141; Telechiric operation implies an asymmetrical frontier between a safe zone and a hostile one — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 135; Remote weapons make war unilateral with deaths confined to the enemy side (+2 more)

Related

• Remote-controlled warfare was predicted to radicalize the asymmetry between imperial powers and colonized peoples (similarity 0.93)
• Telechiric operation implies an asymmetrical frontier between a safe zone and a hostile one (similarity 0.90)
• Remote weapons make war unilateral with deaths confined to the enemy side (similarity 0.88)
• Modern drone asymmetry is a continuation of colonial weapons double standards (similarity 0.87)
• Remote-controlled weapons treat the enemy as dangerous material to be eliminated unilaterally (similarity 0.86)
• Drone warfare creates a new configuration that is neither war nor peace (similarity 0.84)
• Remote-controlled machines were proposed as a third option beyond protected men or autonomous machines (similarity 0.81)
• The drone made warfare absolutely unilateral, killing without risk of being killed (similarity 0.81)
• Drone warfare emerged from political weakness of empire, not technological strength. (similarity 0.80)
• Drone-weaponized remote control radicalizes war into one-sided killing from safe zones (similarity 0.80)
• Drone warfare establishes a norm neither war nor peace via imperial immunity (similarity 0.80)
• Drone warfare creates a new ethical-political norm neither war nor peace (similarity 0.79)
• Remote warfare will shift trauma study from victims to perpetrators (similarity 0.79)
• Drone warfare pits unburdened machines against bodies bound by physical limits. (similarity 0.79)
• Radical protection from death transforms war into one-sided slaughter or hunting (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Remote-controlled warfare was predicted to radicalize the asymmetry between imperial powers and colonized peoples #exemplifies (0.95) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 141
• Telechiric operation implies an asymmetrical frontier between a safe zone and a hostile one #expands (0.80) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 135
• Remote weapons make war unilateral with deaths confined to the enemy side #expands (0.75)
• Modern drone asymmetry is a continuation of colonial weapons double standards #expands (0.70)