Tournament: Weber | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cal Fullerton RR | Judge: Josh Yake
Inherency
Obama doesn't use offshore balancing but liberal imperialism

John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison  Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science  at the University of Chicago. Imperial by Design, The National Interest. Number 111 • Jan / Feb 2011 http://mearsheimer.uchicago.edu/pdfs/A0059.pdf

The United States....  great-power rival.

(Narrative)
One group of individuals who is often silenced in discussion of forward deployment are the families of the troops deployed.  When a person is deployed overseas there is a moment when that husband, wife, mother, daughter, father, son, brother leaves their family and the ones they love.  It is a moment that those affected will never forget because you never know if this will be the last time you see your loved one. Evan's dad was stationed overseas on two different deployments. First he was in Kosovo for three years where he cleared buildings of of suspected terrorists.   His job was to enter a building and try to eradicate that building of those whom we believed were hostile to United States interests. Basically, he and those around him were in danger everytime he left base.  The second time he was sent to Uganda and Djibouti for another three years.   

Evan's dad was  gone for 6 years of his childhood. Honestly, they don't talk about his experiences too much. He has never really shown much interest in describing those years of his life.  They also haven't talked about what happened here while he was gone. Evan thinks reliving those absences of memories may be too painful for him. In short, He missed 5 of Evan's birthdays. He missed 4 seasons of pee-wee basketball and 3 seasons of pee-wee baseball.  He missed Evan's first junior high dance and first day of high school.  Grandpa was the one who taught him to drive and Evan's mom taught him how to mow the lawn. The family tried to keep in touch; they wrote some letters every four months maybe. But letters just aren't the same. 

I can't imagine what he experienced.  I can't imagine what it would be like to be gone from your family for so many years and to come back to such a different world, such a different family.  I do know that there are tens of thousands of individuals who will face this situation over the next several years.  It is in part their experience and in part my past experience that I offer the following affirmative.
(End of narrative)

Thus the plan: The United States Congress should restrict the president's war power authority to introduce troops into hostilities by banning the use of troops stationed overseas to be used in combat by using the power to remove funding for troops being stationed overseas. 

Solvency
Plan prevents presidential action – the constitution provides two justifications for plan action --- the Power of the purse ensures no violations of plan

Elsea et al 2013 Jennifer K. Elsea, Legislative Attorney; Michael John Garcia, Legislative Attorney; Thomas J. Nicola, Legislative Attorney. Congressional Authority to Limit Military Operations, Congressional Research Service. February 19, 2013 http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/206121.pdf

At least two arguments ...planned  military operations.12

Congress has historically dictated where troops are located 

Elsea et al 2013 Jennifer K. Elsea, Legislative Attorney; Michael John Garcia, Legislative Attorney; Thomas J. Nicola, Legislative Attorney. Congressional Authority to Limit Military Operations, Congressional Research Service. February 19, 2013 http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/206121.pdf

Congress has also used …. to authorize only engineering duties: 

Plan avoids the executive using funds from other places to keep bases open

Elsea et al 2013 Jennifer K. Elsea, Legislative Attorney; Michael John Garcia, Legislative Attorney; Thomas J. Nicola, Legislative Attorney. Congressional Authority to Limit Military Operations, Congressional Research Service. February 19, 2013 http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/206121.pdf

As a procedural matter, …. would be subject to presidential veto. 

Advantage 1- Offshore Balancing
Overseas bases have limited strategic capabilities because of host country vetos

Lostumbo et al. 2013 Michael J. Lostumbo, Michael J. McNerney,  Eric Peltz, Derek Eaton, David R. Frelinger,  Victoria A. Green?eld, John Halliday, Patrick Mills,  Bruce R. Nardulli, Stacie L. Pettyjohn,  Jerry M. Sollinger, Stephen M. Worman. Overseas Basing  of  U.S. Military Forces An Assessment of Relative Costs and Strategic Benefits, Rand National Defense Research Institute.  2013 http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR200/RR201/RAND_RR201.pdf

To varying degrees....any operations that these forces conduct.10

Oversea bases are vulnerable to attack and inability to conduct missions because of host nations being threatened by other countries

Joel Wuthnow is a graduate student at Oxford University, focusing on Chinese foreign policy and international security. The Impact of Missile Threats on the Reliability of U.S. Overseas Bases: A Framework for Analysis, Strategic Studies Institute. January 2005 http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/summary.cfm?q=594

External military threats ….missile states are appearing.

Aff forces offshore balancing 

Joel Wuthnow is a graduate student at Oxford University, focusing on Chinese foreign policy and international security. The Impact of Missile Threats on the Reliability of U.S. Overseas Bases: A Framework for Analysis, Strategic Studies Institute. January 2005 http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/summary.cfm?q=594

Second, in times of conflict, ….agreements will have to be negotiated.

Offshore balancing would have regional hegemons ensure stability in regions

Christopher Layne, associate professor in the School of International Studies at the University of Miami. Offshore Balancing RevisitedThe Washington Quarterly • 25:2 Spring 2002

Like primacy, offshore balancing ... United States to do it for them.

Basing in the middle east ensures instability, US involvement in escalation of violence and threatens terrorist attacks
 
Michael Koplovsky, FS-01, Foreign Service. PRECIPITATING THE INEVITABLE: THE SURPRINGLY BENIGN
IMPACT OF LOSING BASING RIGHTS IN BAHRAIN, Naval War College. 23 October 2006 http://dodreports.com/pdf/ada463412.pdf
 
Competing strategic demands …. of terrorism against U.S. forces.10

Removal of permanent basing would prevent terrorist attacks in the middle east
 
Michael Koplovsky, FS-01, Foreign Service. PRECIPITATING THE INEVITABLE: THE SURPRINGLY BENIGN
IMPACT OF LOSING BASING RIGHTS IN BAHRAIN, Naval War College. 23 October 2006 http://dodreports.com/pdf/ada463412.pdf
 
According to Richard Sokolosky, ….U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps planners.

Military presence upsets al-Qaeda

John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison  Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science  at the University of Chicago. Imperial by Design, The National Interest. Number 111 • Jan / Feb 2011 http://mearsheimer.uchicago.edu/pdfs/A0059.pdf

There are two possible. …. between two different ways of life? 

al Qaeda is growing

Al-Jazeera 2013. "The Rise and Rise of Al-Qaeda." Al-Jazeera. N.p., 8 Aug. 2013. Web. 05 Nov. 2013. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2013/08/2013887203250771.html.

It has been be a new problem we are facing.”

al Qaeda wants and can get WMD's

Reuters 2013 Dahl, Fredrik. "Governments Warn about Nuclear Terrorism Threat." Reuters. Thomson Reuters, 01 July 2013. Web. 05 Nov. 2013. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/01/us-nuclear-security-idUSBRE96010E20130701.

More action is ….their nuclear ambitions," he said.

Nuclear terrorism causes extinction even if it is unsuccessful

Mohamed Sid-Ahmed, political analyst, August 26 – September 1, 2004, Al-Ahram Weekly On-Line, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/op5.htm

We have reached ...we will all be losers.

Advantage 2 Congressional Control

Military control of CMR now

National Interest 2013 Kohn, Richard. "Out of Control: The Crisis in Civil-Military Relations." The National Interest. N.p., 2 Nov. 2013. Web. 09 Nov. 2013. http://nationalinterest.org/article/out-of-control-the-crisis-in-civil-military-relations-343?page=4.

THE U.S. MILITARY ….she replied, "Pro-military.")

Aff reestablishes congressional control

Foster 11 Gregory D. Foster  Gregory D. Foster is a professor at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, Washington, D.C. He is know as the Go to man for United States Civil-military Relations breifings “Growing Up” Armed Forces Journal 11 http://armedforcesjournal.com/2011/09/7558134/ 

Where civilian subjugation ….and strategically counterproductive.

Too much military control over miltary policy ensures nuclear war 

Cohen ’00 (Eliot A.-, Prof. @ Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and director of the Strategic Studies department @ Johns Hopkins, worked for Dod, taught at the U.S. Naval War College, Fall, National Interest, “Why the Gap Matters - gap between military and civilian world”, http://www.24hourscholar.com/p/articles/mi_m2751/is_2000_Fall/ai_65576871/pg_4?pi=scl AGupta)

At the same time, …. society and technology