The partisans of the drone as a privileged weapon of “antiterrorism” promise a war without losses or defeats. What they fail to mention is that it will also be a war without victory. The scenario that looms before us is one of infinite violence, with no possible exit; the paradox of an untouchable power waging interminable wars toward perpetual war.

Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, loc. 288