Tournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: all | Judge: all
1AC
1AC-Framing
The standard is resisting militarism:
First¸ militarism epistemologically corrupts all political thought-confronting it is a prior question
Pieterse 7
Jan Nederveen, professor of sociology at the University of Illinois, Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 14, No. 3, Aug., “Political and Economic Brinkmanship,” p. 473-4
Brinkmanship and producing instability carry several meanings. The American military spends 48 of
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the need for postwar planning (Packer, 2005; Lang, 2004).
Second, Militarism has inflicted massive suffering and casualties – without immediate action, militarism will lead us into a death spiral that threatens the planet and humanity. That’s try or die CACC 11:
Admin, “Rejecting Militarism”, FEBRUARY 15, 2011, Canadians for Emergency action on Climate Change, http://climatesoscanada.org/blog/2011/02/15/rejecting-militarism/ climate change, wars, displacement, resource scarcity, false solutions, wealth concentration
Resources: 1 http://www.fcnl.org/budget/
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will not accept the death spiral of militarism, war and climate change.
Third, overseas militarism comes home to roost-causes police abuse and fascism
Jenkins, Social Economics Department Chair @ Hampton Institute, 14
Colin Jenkins, “Coming Home to Roost: American Militarism, War Culture, and Police Brutality”. February 27th, 2014. Society and Culture. The Hampton Institute. Colin Jenkins is founder, editor and Social Economics Department chair at the Hampton Institute, and has been published at Truthout, Common Dreams, Dissident Voice, Black Agenda Report, Popular Resistance, Z Magazine, and New Politics.
America's culture of war and violence was bound to catch up to all of us
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, transcending targeted demographics to include a working-class-wide assault.
This creation of a militaristic society destroys open deliberation and ethical thought-fighting back in pedagogical spaces is key
Giroux 13
(Henry Giroux history teacher in Rhode Island, for six years,2 held positions at Boston University, Miami University, and Penn State. " http://philosophersforchange.org/2015/10/13/the-curse-of-totalitarianism-and-the-challenge-of-critical-pedagogy/)
At a time when the public good is under attack and there seems to be
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critical pedagogy illuminates the relationships among knowledge, authority and power.11
Activist movements are being crushed in the mainstream-only discussion of direct solutions to militarism in pedagogical spaces solves
Hanrahan
Hanrahan, Clare. “Militarism and the ‘Economics of Extinction’”, no date, published post 2010, Humans for Peace
Climate change activists, rightly concerned about the continued use of fossil fuels to power
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with the economics of extinction." We cannot let this be the end.
1AC-Overseas Militarism
Contention 1 is US militarism:
First:
The American naval doctrine of mastery over the oceans militarizes the seas.
Connery 01
Connery, C. L. "Ideologies of Land and Sea: Alfred Thayer Mahan, Carl Schmitt, and the Shaping of Global Myth Elements." boundary 2 28.2 (2001): 173-201. Project MUSE. Web. 6 Sep. 2016. https://muse.jhu.edu/.
Alfred Mahan’s work The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783 stands
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, has ensured his continued influence on U.S. Pacific strategy.
The oceans have been militarized by the state to assert nuclear power-this is epistemologically overlooked. Supposed freedom of navigation is destroyed by US military exercises.
Deloughrey, Humanities prof @ Berkeley, 10
Deloughrey, Elizabeth. "Heavy Waters: Waste and Atlantic Modernity." Theories and Methodologies 3.125 (2010): 703-12. Modern Language Association of America, 2010. Web. 5 Sept. 2016. Prof DeLoughrey teaches postcolonial literature courses on the environment, globalization, militarism, the politics of food, women’s writing and migration, and Caribbean and Pacific Island literatures. In 2013-14 she was on leave at the Huntington Library as an ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow, and in June 2015 she was Visiting Professor at Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, France.
Elsewhere I’ve written about the rise of ocean studies and the ways in which the
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-powered vessels patrolled the world’s oceans (Davis and Van Dyke 467).
This geopolitical form of militarism is uniquely Anglocentric and epistemologically corrupting-outweighs and is the root cause all other manifestations of militarism
Connery TWO
Connery, C. L. "Ideologies of Land and Sea: Alfred Thayer Mahan, Carl Schmitt, and the Shaping of Global Myth Elements." boundary 2 28.2 (2001): 173-201. Project MUSE. Web. 6 Sep. 2016. https://muse.jhu.edu/.
The geo-imaginary is powerful. It has given us such ideas as Europe
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forces that account for the rise of U.S. global power.
Second:
The promotion of nuclear energy is a cheap front for militarism
Hanrahan
Hanrahan, Clare. “Militarism and the ‘Economics of Extinction’”, no date, published post 2010, Humans for Peace
War is an all out assault on life. Every living being is in peril
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theaters, at a cost of $9.6 billion in 2010.
Nuclear power production is a shallow excuse for weaponization
Ackland 9 - Len Ackland, co-director of the Center for Environmental Journalism., (“Weapons proliferation a big risk with nuclear power” February 10, 2009, http://www.cejournal.net/?p=903) LADI
As Tom Yulsman points out in his Feb. 5 posting, the tight connection
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record. And that still would be a long way from proliferation proof.
1AC-Advocacy
Thus, I advocate a ban on the production of nuclear power in the United States and on all United States naval vessels.
1AC-Solvency
Contention two is solvency:
First, banning nuclear power solves naval power:
Every submarine and aircraft carrier relies on nuclear power
Meyer, Atlantic associate tech editor, 14
Robinson Meyer, associate technology editor @ The Atlantic 10-8-2014, "What It Felt Like to Test the First Submarine Nuclear Reactor," Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/10/what-it-was-like-to-test-the-first-submarine-nuclear-reactor/381195/
The Nautilus turned 60 last week, and the U.S. Navy celebrated both its anniversary and six decades of a nuclear navy. That nuclear navy now encompasses some 80 ships. All of the navy’s submarines and aircraft carriers are nuclear-powered.
No shift to diesel submarines
Holmes, Strategy prof @ Naval War College, 14
James Holmes, 9-18-2014, "U.S. Submarines: Run Silent, Run Deep...On Diesel Engines?," National Interest, http://nationalinterest.org/feature/us-submarines-run-silent-run-deepon-diesel-engines-11306?page=3 James Holmes is Professor of Strategy at the Naval War College and coauthor of Red Star over the Pacific.
Admittedly, the barriers to reentry into conventional submarine warfare would be formidable. For
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the pushback from guardians of the status quo would be frightful to behold.
Nuclear subs are uniquely what sustain US naval militarism
Majumbar, writer for National Interest, 15
Dave Majumbar, writer for National Interest, “Nuclear Submarines: America's New Aircraft Carriers?” Apr 7 2015, National Interest
A new class of nuclear-powered guided missile submarines could be the key to
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that submarines might be the best option during high-end combat operations.
Second, legal actions affect culture-civil rights movement proves
Masket 15
SETH MASKET, OCT 5, 2015, “You Can Change Laws Without Changing Hearts and Minds” http://www.psmag.com/politics-and-law/you-can-change-laws-without-changing-hearts-and-minds
In the wake of yet another mass shooting, a rather familiar public debate is
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some of those changes have done the country a great deal of good.
Third, reduction in US power solves militarism globally-
American primacy is the root cause of global fear politics and militarization
Layne, National Security Chair @ Texas AandM School of Govt, 07
Christopher, professor, and Robert M. Gates Chair in National Security at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas AandM University, American Empire: A Debate, 2007
The claim that others regard American primacy as benevolent because of U.S.
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others of its benevolence is limited by the very enormity of its power.
Fourth, discussion of state policy is a useful heuristic for activism
Zanotti 14 Dr. Laura Zanotti is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech. Her research and teaching include critical political theory as well as international organizations, UN peacekeeping, democratization and the role of NGOs in post-conflict governance.“Governmentality, Ontology, Methodology: Re-thinking Political Agency in the Global World” – Alternatives: Global, Local, Political – vol 38(4):p. 288-304,. A little unclear if this is late 2013 or early 2014 – The Stated “Version of Record” is Feb 20, 2014, but was originally published online on December 30th, 2013. Obtained via Sage Database.
By questioning substantialist representations of power and subjects, inquiries on the possibilities of
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position leads not to apathy but to hyper- and pessimistic activism.’’84
