IBV: Virtual Boundaries w7 "Remote Warfare"

Question 1

Geocentric concept of war

Answer 1

• classic notion of war: about territory and population

- classic notion of armed conflict: (laws of armed conflict) it should be restricted to a geographical battle zone

Question 2

Remote warfare

Answer 2

artificial intelligence used in war > light-footprint military interventions involving a combination of drone strikes and airstrikes, special forces and M2M

Question 3

War as mobile (place)

Answer 3

Redefining the notion of armed conflict as a mobile place attached to the person of the enemy

Outcome > justifying the right to execute suspects anywhere in the world

e.g.’Hunting warfare’ (chamayou in Drone Theory)

Question 4

Everywhere War

Answer 4

the emergent war; the event-fun quality military, paramilitary and terrorist violence can, in principle, occur anywhere

Outcome > difficult to define when we are at war or not (and to define the battlefield)

Question 5

Target-centred concept of war (2)

Answer 5

precise war - targeting

(1) principle of precision or specification “his body becomes the battlefield” (chamayou)
(2) principle of globalization or homogenization “the whole world becomes a hunting ground”

Question 6

Securocratic war

Answer 6

State frames the war as necessary for protection of civilians (of the threat / enemy), there is however no imminent threat to civilians.

Question 7

Enclosure

Answer 7

Taking and demarcating land once used as a common resource.

1) legal instrument for appropriating land
2) and material for reinforcing boundaries

Question 8

Necro-ethics / killing with care

Answer 8

Killing with care - accuracy

Drones are ‘humanitarian’ because they save lives - and specifically ‘our’ lives. Nobody dies, except the enemy.