We need to assess the full scale of this assault. The project is nothing less than a dynamiting of the law of armed conflict as it was established in the second half of the twentieth century: an evisceration of the principles of international law in favor of a nationalism of self-preservation. And, as we shall see, that is also the primary principle of the necroethics of drones.

Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, loc. 444