If the drone is represented as being virtuous, that is because it makes it possible to rule out any possibility of casualties in one's own camp. That argument was recently summed up in a British report: "the use of unmanned aircraft prevents the potential loss of aircrew lives and is thus in itself morally justified." A comparison between this thesis of drones, which are deemed virtuous because they spare their agents any confrontation with death, and the classic maxims according to which military virtue is the precise opposite, is enough to reveal the scope of the revolution taking place in the field of values.

Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, loc. 356