Whether the risks of war are transferred to natives or to machines, Hobson's views still hold. The dronization of the armed forces, just like any other procedure that externalizes those risks, alters the conditions of decision making in warfare. Because the threshold of recourse to violence is drastically lowered, violence tends to be seen as the default option for foreign policy.

Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, loc. 586