The Afghanistan war instantly validated drones as central to future US military strategy.

Evidence

While warfare is defined, in the last analysis, by combat, hunting is essentially defined by pursuit. Two distinct types of geography correspond to the two activities. Combat bursts out wherever opposing forces clash. Hunting, on the other hand, takes place wherever the prey goes. As a hunter-state sees it, armed violence is no longer defined within the boundaries of a demarcated zone but simply by the presence of an enemy-prey who, so to speak, carries with it its own little mobile zone of hostility. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 230 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Drones transform war from combat-defined zones into pursuit-defined hunting grounds. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 230; Drone war turns strategic evaluation into disconnected body counts. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 282; Drone warfare is a war without losses and without victory (+4 more)

Related

• Drones transform war from combat-defined zones into pursuit-defined hunting grounds. (similarity 0.90)
• Drone war’s core task shifted from destroying enemies to finding and tracking them (similarity 0.88)
• Drones resolve the guerrilla problem by depriving insurgents of any target to attack. (similarity 0.87)
• Drone warfare replaces combat’s duel with a hunter-prey hide-and-seek structure (similarity 0.87)
• Drones transformed from surveillance eyes into weapons almost by chance. (similarity 0.85)
• Drone war turns strategic evaluation into disconnected body counts. (similarity 0.84)
• Drones add the remote control’s range to the weapon’s range. (similarity 0.83)
• Drone strikes occur in countries officially at peace, not just war zones. (similarity 0.83)
• Drone warfare pits unburdened machines against bodies bound by physical limits. (similarity 0.83)
• Drones evolved from surveillance eyes into lethal hunter-killer weapons. (similarity 0.82)
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. (similarity 0.82)
• Drones multiplied ballistic reach by adding remote-control distance to weapon range (similarity 0.82)
• Armed drones reshape sovereignty over a state’s own subjects, not just enemies (similarity 0.81)
• Armed drones make killing a priori one-directional, converting combat into slaughter. (similarity 0.81)
• Drone doctrine replaces counterinsurgency’s population politics with terror-and-eradication yield (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Drones transform war from combat-defined zones into pursuit-defined hunting grounds. #expands (0.60) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 230
• Drone-weaponized remote control radicalizes war into one-sided killing from safe zones #expands (0.55)
• Drone warfare is a war without losses and without victory #expands (0.50)
• The drone reconciles liberal security statehood with unrestricted waging of war. #expands (0.50) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 565
• Drone war turns strategic evaluation into disconnected body counts. #expands (0.45) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 282
• Drones undermine the tacit geographic limits built into the laws of war #expands (0.40) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 851
• Obama’s defense guidance continued the War on Terror via drones and special forces #responds-to (0.35) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 433