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For the Tuesday, June 3, 2025 report I will further analyse the productive model for Grégoire Chamayou’s political work, “A Theory of the Drone.” First, as strategic and diplomatic channels since WWII, the concept of strategic war should take priority. The darkest days that stormed Europe, lifting it out of sleep in WWII, symbolised the microcosmic event. Adolf Hitler characterised Czechoslovakia: “a dagger pointed at the heart of Germany.” The preventative war, fearing its growing capabilities, formed the justification for the 1939 invasion. The standard for a pre-emptive war stems from the idea that a states should have credible, verifiable fact of the incoming attack. Whereas the preventative war is totalizing, knowledge is tied down to speculative claims that develop into diplomatic claims.

Chamayou’s chapter on “The Fabrication of Political Automata,” concerns the operator and the machine. The distancelessness of an exterior object, whose presence is grounded, bugsplat! Adorno’s conception of the V2 rocket was that the machine extracts the subject. “It seemsto cost the subject his whole energy to achieve subjectlessness,” for subjectness is the τελοσ for hyperdeveloped techno-capitalists. At a briefing in 2003, an investor for a Northrop Grumman’s X-47A drone remarked, “at least that plane won’t talk back.”

Chamayou’s thesis is that over and above, the dronization of our specifications + rules guiding a conjunctive mechanistic subjectlessness is the basis for theories concerning a “network centric-warfare.” Programming warfare compilers capable of converting autonomic languages is the vestigial organic structure of the appendix. Relative specifications for ontologies should assign safety measures for inoculating and attending to legalistic ethics.

I leave the reader as is, with the following quote from Grégoire Chamayou: “What the dronization of the fighter plane sets out to accomplish technically is the suppression or displacement of this most imperfect link between the state apparatus and its war machines.”