Tournament: KSU | Round: 2 | Opponent: UTSA MP | Judge: Peter Cancro
My name is Brett Gillespie, Pv2 Gillespie to NCO's and CO's, I am a 35F in the 2137th Combined Arms Battalion. To me the topic isn't simply a game, it's life, going round to round just for other individuals to communicate we should do things that has the potential to control my life. It is not something so simple to just be told, knowing that everytime framework is introduced and people claiming that they can better our knowledge and critical thinking, but for what? For me and my friends to be introduced to combat to fight a war that never was ours, to be killed in the name of America and never be given a face or even rarly a number. I think that we have to move beyond that.

I live under the war power authorities, with President Obama as my Commander-in-Chief. People trying to solve going to war, makes me think of my battle buddy Griffin, or Gate, or Faith who all are being shipped out in the month or my family who has been lucky enough to come back. Every war power the president has me closer to go to war, Think about war, think about the time my cousin went through in which he was on patrol in Iraq when an RPG went into a school bus and kids bursting out on fire dying infront of him, but what could he do, nothing. With the Powers over him preventing him from being able help even though he was there. Or my uncle who searched tunnels in Vietnam with a flashlight, M9, and a knife, having to kill to survive or disobey orders and be put to death. These war powers are tied to me in more ways than can I imagine, every breath every day I am under control of the Presidential War Powers- and I may not be here tomorrow depending on how they are used. (narrative)

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.

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.

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 a.....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 …..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, …..be subject to presidential veto. 

Advantage 1- US military

Scenario 1 Imperialism

Status quo liberal imperialism perpetuated by US bases causes war. 

Lipschutz in 1995  (Ronnie, Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz, On Security, 15-16)
 
Consider, then, the consequences ….. undermines the ability. 

The current US hegemony policy is deeply rooted in patriarchal, racist, and militarist assumptions, resulting in dehumanization, murder, and sexual assault.

Kirk 2008 (Gwyn, Women for Genuine Security, “Gender and U.S. Bases in Asia-Pacific” March 14 http://www.fpif.org/articles/gender_and_us_bases_in_asia-pacific)

Militarism is a system …..forced into the feminized role.

US imperalism causes rape, cause sexual assult, and dehumanize women in local areas, Japan proves

Foreign Policy 13 in Focus 2013. Annie Isabel Fukushima and Gwyn Kirk. "Military Sexual Violence: From Frontline to Fenceline." Foreign Policy In Focus. N.p., 17 June 2013. Web. 23 Sept. 2013. http://fpif.org/military_sexual_violence_from_frontline_to_fenceline/.

Okinawan women ….. women would provide sex.

Scenario 2 O/B

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, …... 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.

And the transition to offshore balancing will be peaceful

Maher 10 (Richard Maher, Ph.D. in Political Science at Brown University, November 12, 2010,“The Paradox of American Unipolarity: Why the United States May Be Better Off in a Post-Unipolar World”, http://dl2af5jf3e.scholar.serialssolutions.com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/?sid=googleandauinit=Randaulast=Maherandatitle=The+paradox+of+American+unipolarity:+Why+the+United+States+may+be+better+off+in+a+post-unipolar+worldandid=doi:10.1016/j.orbis.2010.10.003andtitle=Orbis+(Philadelphia)andvolume=55andissue=1anddate=2011andspage=53andissn=0030-4387) ZA
 
The other way to …... American security guarantees.

Scenario 3 Bases bad

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,..... 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 compose ….. states are appearing.

Even if bases and hegemony could solve conflict in the past – influence is down and it cant solve now

Walt 12 (Stephen M Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, PhD in political science from the University of California at Berkeley, BA in international relations from Stanford University, co-editor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, co-chair of the editorial board of International Security, member of the editorial boards of Foreign Policy, Security Studies, Journal of Cold War Studies, and International Security, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, resident associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, guest scholar at the Brookings Institute, 1-26-12, “Whether or not the US is Declining is the Wrong Question,” http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/01/26/asking_the_wrong_question_about_the_us_and_china) GZ

Instead, the real issue..... world affairs is declining.

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 ….. a clash  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 15 ….. 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 needed …..to achieve 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.

Tournament: UNT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Houston AsBo | Judge: Jeff Kurr
(narrative)
My name is Brett Gillespie, Pv2 Gillespie to NCO's and CO's, I am a 35F in the 2137th Combined Arms Battalion. To me the topic isn't simply a game, it's life, going round to round just for other individuals to communicate we should do things that has the potential to control my life. It is not something so simple to just be told, knowing that everytime framework is introduced and people claiming that they can better our knowledge and critical thinking, but for what? For me and my friends to be introduced to combat to fight a war that never was ours, to be killed in the name of America and never be given a face or even rarly a number. I think that we have to move beyond that.

I live under the war power authorities, with President Obama as my Commander-in-Chief. People trying to solve going to war, makes me think of my battle buddy Griffin, or Gate, or Faith who all are being shipped out in the month or my family who has been lucky enough to come back. Every war power the president has me closer to go to war, Think about war, think about the time my cousin went through in which he was on patrol in Iraq when an RPG went into a school bus and kids bursting out on fire dying infront of him, but what could he do, nothing. With the Powers over him preventing him from being able help even though he was there. Or my uncle who searched tunnels in Vietnam with a flashlight, M9, and a knife, having to kill to survive or disobey orders and be put to death. These war powers are tied to me in more ways than can I imagine, every breath every day I am under control of the Presidential War Powers- and I may not be here tomorrow depending on how they are used.
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 needs ... great-power rival.

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.

Solvency

Plan prevents presidential 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 its ... 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 ... 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,...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 c... states are appearing.

Even if bases and hegemony could solve conflict in the past – influence is down and it cant solve now

Walt 12 (Stephen M Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, PhD in political science from the University of California at Berkeley, BA in international relations from Stanford University, co-editor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, co-chair of the editorial board of International Security, member of the editorial boards of Foreign Policy, Security Studies, Journal of Cold War Studies, and International Security, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, resident associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, guest scholar at the Brookings Institute, 1-26-12, “Whether or not the US is Declining is the Wrong Question,” http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/01/26/asking_the_wrong_question_about_the_us_and_china) GZ

Instead, the real issue ... affairs is declining.

The current US hegemony policy is deeply rooted in patriarchal, racist, and militarist assumptions, resulting in dehumanization, murder, and sexual assault.

Kirk 2008 (Gwyn, Women for Genuine Security, “Gender and U.S. Bases in Asia-Pacific” March 14 http://www.fpif.org/articles/gender_and_us_bases_in_asia-pacific)

Militarism is a system …. the feminized role.

US forward deployed troops rape, cause sexual assult, and dehumanize women in local areas, Japan proves

Foreign Policy 13 in Focus 2013. Annie Isabel Fukushima and Gwyn Kirk. "Military Sexual Violence: From Frontline to Fenceline." Foreign Policy In Focus. N.p., 17 June 2013. Web. 23 Sept. 2013. http://fpif.org/military_sexual_violence_from_frontline_to_fenceline/.

Okinawan women have...women would provide sex.

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 ... 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 ... States to do it for them.

And the transition to offshore balancing will be peaceful

Maher 10 (Richard Maher, Ph.D. in Political Science at Brown University, November 12, 2010,“The Paradox of American Unipolarity: Why the United States May Be Better Off in a Post-Unipolar World”, http://dl2af5jf3e.scholar.serialssolutions.com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/?sid=googleandauinit=Randaulast=Maherandatitle=The+paradox+of+American+unipolarity:+Why+the+United+States+may+be+better+off+in+a+post-unipolar+worldandid=doi:10.1016/j.orbis.2010.10.003andtitle=Orbis+(Philadelphia)andvolume=55andissue=1anddate=2011andspage=53andissn=0030-4387) ZA
 
The other way to t... on American security guarantees.

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 ...terrorism against U.S. forces.10

Status quo liberal imperialism perpetuated by US bases causes war. 

Lipschutz in 1995  (Ronnie, Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz, On Security, 15-16)
 
Consider, then, the consequences ...– undermines the ability. 

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, ...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 a...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 15 years since ... 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 needed ...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 a ...we will all be losers.