If there was any repugnance felt at the use of ignoble means, it was present only in situations where the conflict was between equals, rather than simply a matter of putting down inferiors. As Jünger reflects, “In every age a distinction has been drawn between two styles, a superior and a barbaric form of the law and the conventions of war. . . . In the Middle Ages, the Christian fleets could fire red hot cannon balls only when they encountered Turkish vessels. In the twentieth century, dum-dum bullets, proscribed in European theatres of operation, were used in colonial wars and the reason for this was said to be that lead bullets did not halt the frenzy of attacks by the ‘savages.’”

Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, loc. 339