The hostile zone is patrolled and surveilled but never occupied by living bodies

Evidence

The hostile zone, for its part, remains a space that is left derelict but which, as a potentially threatening area, definitely needs to be kept under surveillance. It may even be exploited for its resources, but it is not, strictly speaking, to be occupied. One intervenes there and patrols it, but there is no suggestion of going to live there—except to carve out new secured zones, bases, or platforms in accordance with a general topographical schema and for reasons of security. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 136

Categorization

• XREF: This ‘patrol without occupation’ maps onto the reader’s interest in how drone war transformed physical space and time. — connects to: Hostile zones are surveilled and exploited but never occupied or settled