The difference between these two vignettes heralds what is at stake politically in the dronization and robotization of the armed branches of the state. The dream is to construct a bodiless force, a political body without human organs, replacing the old regimented bodies of subjects by mechanical instruments that would, if possible, become its sole agents. … All the same, once this stage was reached, it is also possible that its increasingly evident destiny would be to be dumped in a junkyard like any other piece of scrap metal.

Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, loc. 700