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Military Aff DDI 2008 KO LabJunaid Tayyab, JB Hardin, Abhinav Shrestha, Francis Jin, Marc Milani
The Solar Military Affirmative
The Solar Military Affirmative .............................................................................................................................1
1AC Military ................................................................................................................................................................................................2
**Readiness**
Readiness Low ...........................................................................................................................................................................................15Depending on oil bad .................................................................................................................................................................................17Alternatives key to readiness .....................................................................................................................................................................19Solar solves readiness ................................................................................................................................................................................25Readiness key to heg ..................................................................................................................................................................................26Energy key to military ...............................................................................................................................................................................28Heg Low .....................................................................................................................................................................................................29Heg Good ...................................................................................................................................................................................................32AT: Oil dependence kills heg ....................................................................................................................................................................34
**Public**
Casualties hurt Public Support ...................................................................................................................................................................35Casualties hurt Public Support- Iraq ..........................................................................................................................................................37Public Support Low- Iraq ...........................................................................................................................................................................38Public Support key to Heg .........................................................................................................................................................................39
**Iraq**
Oil dependence makes war Inevitable .......................................................................................................................................................41Alternatives key to Iraq ..............................................................................................................................................................................44Readiness key to Iraq .................................................................................................................................................................................50Readiness Low- Iraq ..................................................................................................................................................................................53Iraq War Inevitable ....................................................................................................................................................................................55Stabilize Iraq Possible ................................................................................................................................................................................56Instability Bad ............................................................................................................................................................................................57Oil Shocks bad- China Scenario ................................................................................................................................................................59AT: Withdrawal Inevitable ........................................................................................................................................................................60AT: Obama will Pullout .............................................................................................................................................................................61AT: Withdrawal CP ...................................................................................................................................................................................63
**Competitiveness**
 No Investment Now ...................................................................................................................................................................................65Plan Key to Spinoff ....................................................................................................................................................................................66Plan key to competitiveness .......................................................................................................................................................................68Plan key to growth .....................................................................................................................................................................................69Plan key to tech ..........................................................................................................................................................................................701
 
Military Aff DDI 2008 KO LabJunaid Tayyab, JB Hardin, Abhinav Shrestha, Francis Jin, Marc Milani
Plan key to Alt Energy Industry .................................................................................................................................................................71Tech solves Growth ...................................................................................................................................................................................72Competitiveness Key to Heg .....................................................................................................................................................................73Competitiveness Key to Economy .............................................................................................................................................................74
**Add-On Advantage**
Spec Ops Add-On ......................................................................................................................................................................................75
**Solvency**
Battery shortage now .................................................................................................................................................................................77Solar solves batteries .................................................................................................................................................................................78Solar Cells solve supply lines ....................................................................................................................................................................79Solar key to stealth .....................................................................................................................................................................................80Solar key to bases .......................................................................................................................................................................................81Base key to mobility ..................................................................................................................................................................................82AT: No Solar Tech .....................................................................................................................................................................................83AT: don’t work in dark ..............................................................................................................................................................................84AT: Oil shocks kill DoD ............................................................................................................................................................................85
**Answers to Offcase Position**
2AC Hydrogen FC CP ...............................................................................................................................................................................86Hydrogen/FC Bad ......................................................................................................................................................................................87AT: Fuel Cells soon ...................................................................................................................................................................................902AC Biofuels CP ........................................................................................................................................................................................912AC Efficiency CP ....................................................................................................................................................................................922AC Wind Power .......................................................................................................................................................................................93Wind Power Bad ........................................................................................................................................................................................94AT: Synthetic Fuels CP .............................................................................................................................................................................95AT Ethanol CP- Aviation Turn ..................................................................................................................................................................97AT: States CP: DoD Tradeoff Turn .........................................................................................................................................................100AT: States CP- DoD Refusal Turn ...........................................................................................................................................................102AT: States CP- USFG Key ......................................................................................................................................................................103AT: Politics- Plan Popular .......................................................................................................................................................................104AT: Politics- Plan Unpopular ...................................................................................................................................................................106AT: Spending- Plan Inexpensive/Cost Efficient .....................................................................................................................................1072
 
Military Aff DDI 2008 KO LabJunaid Tayyab, JB Hardin, Abhinav Shrestha, Francis Jin, Marc Milani
1AC Military
Plan: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase funding for the Departmentof Defense for the development of photovoltaic technologies for military application.Contention 1: HegemonyA.ReadinessMilitary readiness is at an all time low
Ann Scott
Tyson
, Washington Post Staff Writer, 4-2-20
08
, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102444.html?hpid=topnewsSenior 
Army
andMarine Corps leaders
said yesterday that the increase of more than 30,000 troops
in Iraqand Afghanistan 
hasput unsustainable levels of stress on U.S. ground forces and has put their readiness to fight other conflicts at the lowest level inyears.
In a stark assessment a week before Gen. David H. Petraeus,the top U.S. commander in Iraq, is to testify on the war's  progress,Gen. Richard A. Cody,the
Army's vice chief of staff, said
that the
heavy deployments are inflicting "incredible stress"on soldiers and families and that they pose "a significant risk" to the nation's all-volunteer military.
"When the five-brigadesurge went in . . . that took all the stroke out of the shock absorbers for theUnited States Army," Cody testified before theSenate Armed Services Committee's readiness panel. He said that even if five brigades are pulled out of Iraq by July, as planned, it wouldtake some time before the Army could return to 12-month tours for soldiers. Petraeus is expected to call for a pause in further troopreductions to assess their impact on security in Iraq. "
I've
 
never seen our lack of strategic depth be where it is today," said Cody,who has been the senior Army official in charge of operations and readiness for the past six years
and plans to retire thissummer.
A military fueled by oil is unsustainable – use of alternatives is key
Bryan
Bender
, May 1, 20
07
, The Boston Globe,
(http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/05/01/pentagon_study_says_oil_reliance_strains_military/ )
WASHINGTON --
A new study
ordered by the Pentagon
warns that the rising cost and dwindling supply of oil -- the lifeblood of fighter jets, warships, and tanks -- will make the US military's ability to respond to hot spots around the world "unsustainablein the long term."
The study, produced by a defense consulting firm, concludes that all four branches of 
the military must"fundamentally transform" their assumptions about energy, including taking immediate steps toward
fielding weaponssystems and aircraft that run on
alternative and renewable fuels. It is "imperative" that the Department of Defense "apply newenergy technologies that address alternative supply sources and efficient consumption across all aspects of militaryoperations,"
according to the report, which was provided to the Globe.3
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