Military surveillance combines monotony with sudden violence. [fact]
The work here is extremely boring. Men pass whole nights watching a screen on which, for the most part, appear unchanging images of another desert on the other side of the planet. Eating Doritos and M&Ms, they wait for something to happen: “months of monotony and milliseconds of mayhem.”
Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, loc. 22