Military Index..............................................................................................................................................................................................1 Explanation & Glossary............................................................................................................................................................................... 2 1nc Shell [1/2]........................................................................................................................................................................................ . . . . . . 3 1nc Shell [2/2]........................................................................................................................................................................................ . . . . . . 4 Overview......................................................................................................................................................................................................5 Uniqueness \u2013 Recruitment Up..................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Uniqueness \u2013 Quantity & Quality Up.......................................................................................................................................................... 7 Brink............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 8 Link \u2013 Social Services................................................................................................................................................................................. 9 Link \u2013 Social Services............................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Link \u2013 poverty/economic hardships........................................................................................................................................................... 11 Link - Jobs.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 12 Link \u2013 Education........................................................................................................................................................................................13 Link \u2013 immigrants......................................................................................................................................................................................14 Internal Link Block [1/2]........................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Internal Link Block [2/2]........................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Recruitment Key........................................................................................................................................................................................ 17 Youth Recruitment Key............................................................................................................................................................................. 18 Hegemony Impacts....................................................................................................................................................................................19 A2 tech is enough....................................................................................................................................................................................... 21 A2 racist..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 22 A2 focuses on inner-city kids.................................................................................................................................................................... 23 A2 Bad economy is the only reason.......................................................................................................................................................... 24 A2 Army not important.............................................................................................................................................................................. 25 Recruitment 2AC [1/2]....................................................................................................................................................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Recruitment 2AC [2/2]....................................................................................................................................................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Ext 2 \u2013 empirically denied......................................................................................................................................................................... 28 Ext 7 \u2013 retention solves........................................................................................................................................................................ . . . . . . 29 Hegemony Answers...................................................................................................................................................................................30 Economy Answers..................................................................................................................................................................................... 31

I. Explanation of the Disad
I like this disad because of its absolute simplicity.
UNIQUENESS - People are joining the military in record numbers now. Largely because the military offers the best possible way
to succeed financially or get an education.
LINK \u2013 providing new social services \u2013 whether they are jobs, education, or just general economic help \u2013 make people less likely
to join the military. The Tenney card is in the shell and is very explicit. If the military is the only choice for making something of
yourself then you join the military. If the government is handing out checks without you having to join the military then you are
less likely to serve.
IMPACT \u2013 military service is good. We needs troops in the military so that we remain the intimidating leader of the world. If
people stop joining we could be in trouble because it is our soldiers on the ground that is the most important part of our military.
US Leadership is necessary to prevent wars from happening all over the world and also helps sustain the US economy.

II. things included in this file.
A. The shell \u2013 read it in the 1nc.
B. Uniqueness extensions. More cards that recruitment is high. That part is true. Lots of people are joining now. Read these
cards if they make an argument about the military not meeting their recruitment numbers.
C. Brink \u2013 just a card that says Obama cut the budget for recruitment. Which means they have less money to spend this year and
next so changes are that much more dangerous than they would have been in the past. This card is useful if they say that the
military has so many people that small changes don\u2019t matter
D. Links \u2013 read additional links that are specific to the aff. If they increase jobs \u2013 then read the jobs link. If they help out
immigrants then read the immigrants link \u2013 etc. Making specific reasons why the aff hurts recruitment makes the disad stronger.
E. internal link block \u2013 this is a collection of arguments about how recruitment of soldiers is incredibly important for the strength
of our military.
F. A2 tech is enough \u2013 responses to the claim that technology means we don\u2019t need a ton of new soldiers.
G. A2 racist & A2 focuses on inner city kids \u2013 some people say the fact that the military relies on poor and inner-city kids to make
soldiers is racist. These cards answer that argument.
H. A2 Bad economy is the only reason \u2013 if they say the bad economy is causing more recruitment this card says that it is not the

\u201cExt\u201d means Extensions \u2013 which are more cards for particular arguments. You can read those in the 1ar if the negative also reads more evidence on those questions. There is no need to read those cards in the 2ac since we are already making those arguments. Hegemony & Economy Answers \u2013 these are cards that answer the impacts to the disad. You may want to add them to the 2ac or wait for the negative to read those impacts then respond with these cards.

All branches of the U.S. Military are showing strong recruiting numbers with the flagging economy.
The last reporting period for December showed theU .S . Army andU.S. Marine Corps exceeding recruitment goals, reaching 115
percent and 113 percent of their goals,respectivel y.
The Air Force and Navy met their targets as well.
Those results came as private employers made sweeping rounds of layoffs. In December, the U.S. Dept. of Labor reported unemployment rates

military coupled with staggering job losses make for plum pickings among military recruiters.
"They get a larger pool of people and can be more selective," he said. "For the applicants, they see an opportunity to train in some
fairly advanced fields while having the job stability provided by the military."

What if someone were to offer you stability, employment, a college education, community, personal development and a chance to
see the world? What would you say? What if in your community, there were no jobs, the public schools sucked, you did not have
enough money for college and your future was uncertain? Would this influence your decision? This scenario gets played out everyday
across the country between young people and military recruiters.
Military recruiters by the thousands are sent into schools and communities to lie, persuade and coerce young people into signing up for
the military. Billboards are posted showing men and women making a difference and serving their country. They make promises of jobs, stability, education and

This deliberate advertising scheme is part of what is called the poverty draft. The poverty draft is a policy that targets young people in low-income communities for military recruitment. The military uses the rampant poverty and uncertain future of working class young people as a way to entice them into military service. The poverty draft has aracist edge to it. The military specifically targets schools and

communities that have large populations of African American and Latino/a youth.
Under-funding Our Schools
Two things create the poverty draft. First, is the purposeful and deliberate under-funding of our public schools, jobs for youth and other social programs to give
money to corporations, the wealthy and the military. The Bush Administration claims there is no money for programs like Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and
employment programs, yet there is always money for his tax breaks for the rich and to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to a budget breakdown by
the War Resisters League, our government currently spends nearly $991 billion dollars on the military while at the same time only spends $73 billion on education.
This includes money for both public schools and higher education.
Bush has also cut funds for youth jobs. Programs that once would employ young students over the summer and provide incentives for businesses to hire youth are
gone. Today young people are unable to find good-paying jobs. The jobs that are left are service sector jobs that pay low wages and

are non-union. These \u201cMcJobs\u201d were once a place for high school students to make some extra money. Instead, these dead-end,
low wage jobs have become the only employer in poor communities.
By pulling money fromeducatio n, social services and jobs for young people Bush has put our future on an uncertain path. Young people don\u2019t
know what type of job they will have, don\u2019t know how they can pay for college and don\u2019t know if they can make a future for
themselves. This precarious situation is what the military uses to find new recruits.