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This thesis aims to provide an analysis of the effects of drone technology on the organization of the military and soldiery. Starting with the assumption that military organization is unique in terms of managing violence, concepts from the field of military sociology are used to explain organizational and professional patterns within the military. Under the topic of Institution/Occupation, Authority, Soldiery Types, and Warfare, different ideal types are discerned from the literature. In the light of these types, the organization of drone units and the profession of drone operators are analyzed. For this analysis, memoirs of drone operators and military documents are reviewed. We found that drone technology blurs traditional military values as well as changes authority relations by altering the flow of information. But also, it creates a new cyberspace in which soldiers have to develop new mental skills. Moreover, the same space raises the possibility of a bureaucratic warfare that has no spatial and temporal limits. All of these developments suggest important questions for the future of military affairs and their effects on the social.