Arms Sales Topic Outline (Includes Camp Arguments and Evidence)

Topic Lectures

Topicality – DebateUS! Files

United States Federal Government
Should
Reduce
*Reduce means the plan has to break a current contract
*Reduce means the plan has to break a proposed contract
*Reduce means a reduction from proposed future sales
*Reduce means less, not a freeze/suspension

“Reduce” Essay

Substantially
*Substantially means without material qualification — no condition on the reduction
*Substantially means X%+
*Substantially means in the main
*Substantially means of real worth or importance

Direct Commercial Sales — Company to government
Foreign Military Sales – US government to government or organization
Of Arms
*Arms are the actual weapons
*Arms include the maintenance and support

Camp Files

Gonzaga –Michigan State Michigan , Georgetown, Emory, George Mason DDI Cal

Reduce — Michigan
Substantial — Samford

Advantages

Advantages — General

Congress — Georgetown

Democracy — Georgetown

Hegemony – DebateUSI!

Michigan

Prolif — Michigan

Death
Morality
International Law
Human Rights

SoftPower

Terrorism
*Blowback
*Weapons Transfer

Insecurity
*Security dilemma
*corruption
*wasted money
*resource trade-offs

Hot Spots

*India-Pakistan
*Korea

Cases/Plans

Ukraine

Ukraine —Wake Forest Michigan,

Japan

Japan BMD — DDI

Mexico

Mexico small arms —DDI Gonzaga Michigan

Drones

Cal Michigan . DDI

Policing Michigan

India

Bibliography

Taiwan – DebateUS

Cal Wake Forest DDI Gonzaga–Michigan State Michigan, Emory, Georgetown

Europe

*Poland Missile Defense . Cal
*Turkey F-35

Bahrain

Chad

Egypt

Israel

Cal DDI Michigan . Gonzaga .

Israel BDS — Wake Forest

Phillipines — Cal

UAE

Qatar

Qatar Michigan

Saudi Arabia — DebateUS! Saudi Daily Update . Essays

Cal DDI Gonzaga–Northwestern Michigan Georgetown George Mason .

Courts version — Michigan

Saudi Arabia Oversight — Samford

Saudi Gender — Michigan

Small Arms — Cal

Torture Trade

Iron Triangle

MTCR

Oversight

Tear Gas

Kritik Affirmatives

Domestic violence K aff — George Mason

Afropessimism — Wake Forest

Animal Sex Workers — Wake Forest

Baudrillard — Wake Forest

Bataille — Wake Forest

Black Palestine — Wake Forest

Nonmo — Wake Forest

Sabotage — Wake Forest

Taiwan Geneaology — Gonzaga

Tactical Carnival — Cal

Disadvantages

Politics — DebateUS!
*Base (base supports sales); Iran, North Korea
*Political capital — Plan costs PC with Republicans (though Trump doesn’t need to submit and get non-approval)
*Congressional action alienates Trump, undermines cooperation
*Election 2020 — Plan alienates Trump voters, Trump good — Cal – Gonzaga George Mason

Politics (USMCA) –Samford Michigan
Politics (Debt Ceiling) –Gonzaga (lots of links in here) Northwestern Michigan State Georgetown

Politics (Iran) — DebateUS!

Executive Power

Samford–DDI Gonzaga Georgetown .

Alternative Suppliers Worse — DebateUS Russia DebateUS China!
*Countries will buy from Russia, strengthening Russia’s defense industrial base
*Countries will buy from China, strengthening China’s defense industrial base
— China colonialism (more of an influence link)

Cal Gonzaga Michigan

Allied Defense, Allied Prolif, Allied Relationships Good — DebateUS!

Cal Gonzaga Michigan, George Mason

*Japan
*South Korea
*Germany
*Saudi Arabia
*Taiwan
Taiwan files and bibliography
*India

Middle East Allies — DDI

US Defense Industrial Base — DebateUS!
*Jobs
*Military Readiness
– Fusion Weapons
– Space development

Cal Samford DDI Gonzaga Michigan, Georgetown, Emory DebateUS!

Iran Threat — Debate US

Counterterror Cooperation Good — DebateUS!

PMC Shift

Impact Turns — DebateUS
*Instability generates sales for Russia, sales key to Russia’s economy, Russian economic growth good
*Instability causes oil price increases, renewable energy

Hegemony Good

Gonzaga– Michigan

Weapons Transfer

1033 Weapons Retransfer — Gonzaga

Saudi DAs

Saudi Relations –Cal Gonzaga Georgetown

Saudi Air Force — Gonzaga

Saudi Prolif — Gonzaga

MBS Power Good – Michigan

Oil DAs

Saudi Oil – Cal Gonzaga

Oil Dollar — Cal