Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Northwestern WeWo | Judge: Dan Bagwell
Dowd, 13 ~Drone Wars: Risks and Warnings Alan W. Dowd, Alan W. Dowd writes on national defense, foreign policy, and international security. His writing has appeared in multiple publications including Parameters, Policy Review, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, World Politics Review, American Outlook, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Times, The National Post, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, and The Financial Times Deutschland, Parameters 42(4)/43(1) Winter-Spring 2013~
In short, it seems Washington has been seduced by the Jupiter Complex. Being
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spawned a new era of danger for the United States and its allies.
Unfettered drone prolif causes deterrence crises that lead to nuclear conflict and Indo-Pak war
Boyle, 13 ~"The costs and consequences of drone warfare", MICHAEL J. BOYLE, International Affairs 89: 1 (2013) 1–29, assistant professor of political science at LaSalle University~
The emergence of this arms race for drones raises at least five long-term
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legal architecture which might avert some of the worst consequences of their use.
Greg Chaffin 11, Research Assistant at Foreign Policy in Focus, July 8, 2011, "Reorienting U.S. Security Strategy in South Asia," online: http://www.fpif.org/articles/reorienting_us_security_strategy_in_south_asia
The greatest threat to regional security (although curiously not at the top of most
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well lead to all-out war between the two that couldquickly escalate.
Overdorf, 8/15/13 ~Jason, Overdorf covers India for GlobalPost. Overdorf has spent most of the past 15 years living and working in Asia. He worked as an editor with Dow Jones Newswires in New York, Singapore and Hong Kong before moving to New Delhi and becoming a freelance writer in 2002. He was a frequent contributor to the Far Eastern Economic Review until 2004, covering Indian politics, society and business. Since 2004, he has been a special correspondent at Newsweek International, where he writes on a wide range of topics. He has covered Sonia Gandhi’s surprising electoral victory, the ongoing problem of Hindu fundamentalism, the simmering conflict with Maoist rebels, and societal changes resulting from India’s meteoric economic growth. He’s written for the Atlantic Monthly and the Asian Wall Street Journal. His travel articles, personal essays and political commentary have appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, Departures, Travelers’ Tales and other publications. He has degrees in English literature and creative writing from Columbia University, Washington University and Boston University."Analysis: Are India and Pakistan headed for war? Under heavy shelling, Kashmir is again set to stymie the Indo-Pak peace process. And the risks are mounting" Citing Experts at the Woodrow Wilson Center, http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/war/conflict-zones/130814/analysis-are-india-and-pakistan-headed-war~~
"This is a sad reality of India-Pakistan relations — whenever things are
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lead to escalation," Kugelman said. "And that’s a scary thought."
Establishing a precedent of transparency and accountability spills over globally– a non-executive framework is key
Brooks 13 (Rosa, Professor of Law – Georgetown University Law Center, Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow – New America Foundation, Former Counselor to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy – Department of Defense, "The Constitutional and Counterterrorism Implications of Targeted Killing," Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights, 4-23, http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-23-13BrooksTestimony.pdf)
5. Setting Troubling International Precedents Here is an additional reason to worry about the
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them to justify the killing of dissidents, rivals, or unwanted minorities?
HRI, 11 ~Human Rights Institute, Targeting Operations with Drone Technology: Humanitarian Law Implications Background Note for the American Society of International Law Annual Meeting Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School March 25, 2011, p. online~
While they disagree on important legal issues, critics and proponents alike share at least
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evident in Koh’s ASIL speech, of commitment to the rule of law.
Kennedy, 13 ~"Drones: Legitimacy and Anti-Americanism", Greg Kennedy is a Professor of Strategic Foreign Policy at the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London, based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, in Shrivenham, Parameters 42(4)/43(1) Winter-Spring 2013~
The exponential rise in the use of drone technology in a variety of military and
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to ensure its strategic aims are not derailed by operational and tactical expediency.
An executive lead role spurs mistrust and global opposition
Goldsmith, 13 ~May 1st, Jack Goldsmith teaches at Harvard Law School and is a member of the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law. He is the author, most recently, of Power and Constraint, How Obama Undermined the War on Terror http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112964/obamas-secrecy-destroying-american-support-counterterrorism~~
And so Barack Obama greatly expanded the secret war that George W. Bush began
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for which he alone is today responsible, is increasingly viewed as illegitimate.
Epstein, 11 ~Michael, Michigan State University College of Law "Targeted Killing Court: Why The United States Needs To Adopt International Legal Standards For Targeted Killings And How To Do So In A Domestic Court", SSRN~
VI PROPOSED NEW U.S. LEGAL MECHANISM The Obama Administration has not indicated
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of public post-killing investigations of C.I.A. actions359
Epstein, 11 ~Michael, Michigan State University College of Law "Targeted Killing Court: Why The United States Needs To Adopt International Legal Standards For Targeted Killings And How To Do So In A Domestic Court", SSRN~
Overall, I believe that the TKR Court provides for a rigid system of Article
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sort of judicial review could help salvage our reputation abroad and at home.
Formal judicial oversight key – maintains resolve while signaling restraint
NYT, 10 ~"Lethal Force under Law", New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/opinion/10sun1.html~~
The drone program has been effective, killing more than 400 Al Qaeda militants this
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to other countries that the United States couples drastic action with careful judgment.
External court based oversight maintains legitimacy – key internal link to global stability
Knowles, 09 ~Robert, Assistant Professor, NYU Law, "Article: American Hegemony and the Foreign Affairs Constitution", 41 Ariz. St. L.J. 87, p. lexis~
The hegemonic model also reduces the need for executive branch flexibility, and the institutional
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courts to reduce the "deference gap" between foreign and domestic cases.
Adelsberg 12 (Samuel, J.D. – Yale Law School, "Bouncing the Executive’s Blank Check: Judicial Review and the Targeting of Citizens," Harvard Law 26 Policy Review, Summer, 6 Harv. L. 26 Pol’y Rev. 437, Lexis)
The relevance of these precedents to the targeting of citizens is clear: the constitutional right to due process is alive and well—regardless of geographic location. We now turn to what type of process is due.
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Now, we will turn to what this judicial involvement would look like.
Fujimoto 12 (Kevin Fujimoto 12, Lt. Colonel, U.S. Army, January 11, 2012, "Preserving U.S. National Security Interests Through a Liberal World Construct," online: http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/index.cfm/articles/Preserving-US-National-Security-Interests-Liberal-World-Construct/2012/1/11)
The emergence of peer competitors, not terrorism, presents the greatest long-term
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protect its interests later when we are no longer the world’s only superpower.
Brooks, et al, 13 ~Don’t Come Home, America: The Case
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Volume 37, Number 3, Winter 2012, p. Project Muse~
¶ Assessing the Security Benefits of Deep Engagement¶ Even if deep engagement’s costs are
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disengaged—even as it pushes cooperation toward U.S. preferences.
Josh Busby 12, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and a fellow in the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service as well as a Crook Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, http://duckofminerva.blogspot.com/2012/01/get-real-chicago-ir-guys-out-in-force.html
Is Unipolarity Peaceful? As evidence, Monteiro provides metrics of the number of years
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though I’m not sure this necessarily follows), but neither defensive or offensive dominance
offer much possibility for peace either since it is U.S. power in and of itself that makes other states insecure, even though they can’t balance against it.
Chehab, 12 ~Ahmad, Georgetown University Law Center, Retrieving the Role of Accountability in the Targeted Killings Context: A Proposal for Judicial Review~
The practical, pragmatic justification for the COAACC derives largely from considering social psychological findings
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choices and evaluate available alternatives than when subject to little to no review.
====Independently causes wars ====
Jervis, 4 (Robert, political science and international politics professor at Columbia University and a consultant to the CIA, The Record, 7/14, lexis)
But was that indeed what happened? "Groupthink" - identified in the early
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they consider the possibility that the group was on the totally wrong track.
Richard Nixon’s Watergate cover-up was in part maintained by the same dynamic. To many outsiders even at the time, it was obvious that the only way for Nixon to survive was to air the full truth early on. But the Nixon White House was a small group, closed-mouthed and predisposed to keeping everything secret.
Congressional action key to create a court with jurisdiction and to establish independent oversight – it’s effective
McKelvey, 11 ~Benjamin, JD Candidate, Senior Editorial Board, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, "Due Process Rights and the Targeted Killing of Suspected Terrorists: The Unconstitutional Scope of Executive Killing Power," Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, November, 44 VAND. J. TRANSNAT’L L. 1353, http://www.vanderbilt.edu/jotl/2012/06/due-process-rights-and-the-targeted-killing-of-suspected-terrorists-the-unconstitutional-scope-of-executive-killing-power/~~
A. Option One: Congress Could Pass Legislation to Establish Screening and Oversight of
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ultimate authority to an impartial judge with no institutional connection to the CIA.
Simulating high magnitude scenarios in security policy are an exercise in problem-based learning—it’s a unique venue where we can make mistakes and develop strategies to cope with info overload
Donohue, 13 ~2013 Nation al Security Pedagogy: The Role of Simulations, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown Law, http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=217226context=facpub~~
V . T OTAL I MMERSION S IMULATION S The concept of simulations as an
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then c o n c l u d e s . 17V I .
Farrar-Myers, 07 ~Victoria A. Farrar-Myers, professor University of Texas at Arlington, PROMOTING ACTIVE LEARNING THROUGH SIMULATIONS IN PRESIDENCY CLASSES, http://cstl-cla.semo.edu/Renka/PRG/PRG_Reports/Fall_2007.pdf~~
Lao-Tse’s insight captures the essence of an active learning based approach to education
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a lesson that the use of active learning simulations can help them achieve.
