War-waging sovereignty historically treated subjects as owned livestock that sovereigns may slaughter.

Evidence

In this zoopolitical conception of sovereignty, ownership is intertwined with breeding. The right to wage war, seen as a political right, appears as a right of ownership that, according to its classic attributes, allows the owner to use or abuse whatever it is that he owns. But it is also regarded as the more specific right of a producer-breeder, according to which the subjects of his power are its products, seen—as Kant puts it—from the point of view of their abundance. The breeder is certainly not the genitor of the beasts in his flock or herd, but it is he who ensures the domestic conditions for their growth and reproduction. The breeder-sovereign can send them to the slaughterhouse whenever he chooses to do so because they are the live result of his labors. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 571

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the ‘zoopolitical’ conception of sovereignty by contrasting it with citizenship — a key conceptual frame for the whole book.
• XREF: connects to: Radical protection from death transforms war into one-sided slaughter or hunting; Extreme asymmetry in vulnerability transforms war into hunting or slaughter — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 332; Unauthorized murders were treated as acts of war. (+1 more)

Related

• War exercises sovereignty through the right to kill. (similarity 0.82)
• Sovereignty inherently contradicts its protective mandate by holding power of death. (similarity 0.81)
• The sovereign’s exposure of subjects’ lives becomes the basis for limiting its war power (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Radical protection from death transforms war into one-sided slaughter or hunting #corroborates (0.45)
• Extreme asymmetry in vulnerability transforms war into hunting or slaughter #corroborates (0.40) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 332