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Truman CS Marshall
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Substantially Reduce T

A- Interpretation: Substantial reduction means 50% of funding or


quantity.
George W. Casey Jr., Research, Development, and Acquisition Army
Acquisition Procedures, April 1 2009, Distinguished Visiting Senior Lecturer of
Leadership at Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University
Washington D.C. Metro AreaManagement Consulting Current Johnson Graduate School
of Management at Cornell University, Chairman, USO, Georgetown University Board of
Directors Previous U.S. Army, Department of Defense Education Georgetown University
["Department of the Army Pamphlet 703", https://acc.dau.mil/adl/en-
US/463659/file/59509/DA%20PAM%2070-3%20Army%20Acq%20Procedures
%2001%20Apr%202009.pdf, 7-29-2016] bcr
f. Army JPMs or their DOD Components cannot terminate or substantially reduce participation in

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the joint program funded by the component seeking the termination or reduced participation.

B- Violations:

1- Youre not half of training programs


Admiral Kurt W. Tidd, Congressional Testimony, March 10 2016 ,
currently serving as the Commander, United States Southern Command. Prior to the
current assignment, Admiral Tidd served as Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. He also served as the Director for Operations, Joint Staff (J-3) from 2012
to 2013, and as Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command / U.S. 4th Fleet
from August 5, 2011 to June 22, 2012. Confirmed by the Senate on December 16, 2015,
Tidd received his fourth star and succeeded John F. Kelly as commander of United
States Southern Command on January 14, 2016. ["POSTURE STATEMENT OF
ADMIRAL KURT W. TIDD COMMANDER, UNITED STATES SOUTHERN COMMAND
BEFORE THE 114TH CONGRESS SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE 10
MARCH 2016",
http://www.southcom.mil/newsroom/Documents/SOUTHCOM_POSTURE_STATEMENT
_FINAL_2016.pdf] bcr 7-27-2016
To enhance the professional development of the regions military officers and senior enlisted leaders,

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Cooperation (WHINSEC) and Inter-American Air Force Academy (IAAFA).


2- Youre hardly a fraction of funding and personnel
U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence (MCoE), US Army Website, Website Last
Updated: June 9, 2016 10:09, ["WHINSEC Quick Facts",
http://www.benning.army.mil/tenant/whinsec/QuickFacts.html] bcr 8-31-2016
-Joint-Interagency-Multinational Faculty and Staff
215 total personnel
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-WHINSEC Budget
$8.4 million (in FY13)
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HA/DR DA

1- SOUTHCOMs military presence is key to HA/DR in Latin


America
Johan Bergenas et al., Diplomatic Courier, June 30-2016 , Stimson Center
Senior Associate and Director of the Partnerships in Security and Development Program. One of
Bergenas' current primary focus is "natural security" the interlinkages between environmental
challenges and U.S. national and global security as well as on technology and public-private sector
partnerships. His background cuts across a wide range of transnational security challenges - from WMD
proliferation, terrorism and transnational organized crime. ["A Peace Agenda On a Military Mission",
http://www.diplomaticourier.com/2016/06/30/peace-agenda-military-mission/] bcr 8-6-2016
This new approach has been met with some resistance and arguments that engaging security organizations

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addition to infrastructure, SOUTHCOM provided equipment and training to ensure full


operability.

2- Closing WHINSEC decks HA/DR curriculum provides the


framework for SOUTHCOMs training and development of
regional disaster response
Security Assistance Monitor, Secretary of Defense Annual Report to
Congress, 2007, Security Assistance Monitor is a program of the Center for International Policy, in
collaboration with the Friends Committee on National Legislation, Latin America Working Group
Education Fund, Project on Middle East Democracy and Washington Office on Latin America. We track
and analyze U.S. security and defense assistance programs worldwide. By informing policymakers,
media, scholars, NGOs and the public (in the United States and abroad) about trends and issues related
to U.S. foreign security assistance, we seek to enhance transparency and promote greater oversight of
U.S. military and police aid, arms sales and training. [On the Activities of the Western Hemisphere
Institute for Security Cooperation for 2007,
http://securityassistance.org/sites/default/files/090624whinsec07.pdf] bcr 8-9-2016

WHINSEC supports U.S. policies in a region of the world with a


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challenges usually call for cooperative solutions and building relationships is of key importance.

3- SOUTHCOMs HA/DR capabilities create soft engagement


turns regional security and stability
James Stavridis, Partnership for the Americas: Western Hemisphere
strategy and U.S. Southern Command, 2015, retired four-star U.S. Navy admiral
and NATO supreme allied commander who serves today as the dean of the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy at Tufts University. Education PhD, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts
University MALD, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University BS, U.S. Naval Academy
[Google Books] bcr 8-6-2016
Still another benefit is that continued health care and health security engagements provide outstanding training

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of their finite fiscal resources into much-needed supplies and other areas.

4- Soft power solves china transition war cooperative


engagement backs state sovereignty and fair relations
Cameron McKibben, Research Associate at the Council on
Hemispheric Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations, Feb 17 2015, CAN
Surety University of Sydney Masters of International Security Studies 2014 2014 University of Maryland
College Park University of Maryland College Park Bachelor of Arts Degree, International
Relations/Criminology & Criminal Justice 2008 2012 ["Great Power Politics At Play in Latin America?",
http://www.coha.org/great-power-politics-at-play-in-latin-america/] bcr 7-1-2016

China, as the major rival of the United States, is an economic competitor


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the region. U.S. policymakers must see the larger picture.

5- Nuclear Exchanges
Gregory Kulacki, China Project Manager in the UCS Global Security
Program, Union of Concerned Scientists, May 2016 ["The Risk of Nuclear
War with China: A Troubling Lack of Urgency",
http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2016/05/Nuclear-War-with-China.pdf, 8-
17-2016] JMS
PRC leaders believe it is possible to prosecute a major war without risking a U
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the diplomacy of reducing those risks as they now spend preparing for war.
Case
*Inherency *
Inherency DB

Doublebind
- Either WHINSEC is the most reformed military institution OR
- The other 237 training schools perpetuate [imperialism]
Gregory Weeks, Journal of Human Rights, 2015, Job Title: Professor and Chair of
the Department of Political Science and Public Administration Directory: Faculty Department: Department
of Political Science and Public Administration Gregory Weeks received his Ph.D. from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999 and joined the department in 2000. He teaches and does research
on Latin American politics, U.S.-Latin American relations, and immigration. He is also editor of The Latin
Americanist. ["Fighting to Close the School of the Americas: Unintended Consequences of Successful
Activism ", https://clas-pages.uncc.edu/gregory-weeks/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2012/04/JHR-
article.pdf] bcr 8-10-2016

There are some 238 institutions in the United States that train Latin American soldiers,
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detrimental, no other military school has become the focus of an NGO .


Plan Rollback

Plan gets rolled back DoD will rally congress on security interests
Colton C. Campbell, Congress and Civil-Military Relations, 2015 , Professor
of National Security Strategy at the National War College. Prior to joining the National War College, he was a legislative aide to Rep.
Mike Thompson (D-CA), then the chair of the Intelligence Committees Subcommittee on Terrorism, Analysis and Counter-
intelligence, where he handled appropriations, defense, and trade matters for the congressman. Before that, he was an analyst in
American national government at the Congressional Research Service, an Assistant and Associate Professor of Political Science at
Florida International University, and an APSA Congressional Fellow in the office of Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL). He recently served on
the Commanders Initiative Group for the commander of the International Security Assistance Force, US Forces Afghanistan. He
has published 13 books on congressional politics and the legislative process, most recently Congress and Civil-Military Relations
(Georgetown University Press, 2015) and Congress and the Politics of National Security (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
[Google Books] bcr 8-10-2016

There were efforts, however, on the part of a few members, led


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with an extremely rigorous human rights training module simply did not make sense.
HA/DR OV
Poor access to services creates health insecurity threatens human
rights, prosperity, and stability
Amanda Glassman, Center For Global Development, 10-23-2013, Vice
President for Programs, Director of Global Health Policy, and Senior Fellow Expertise:
Health financing and payment, results-based financing, social protection, conditional
cash transfer programs, noncommunicable disease, maternal and child health
Education: MSc Harvard School of Public Health; BA Brown University ["Briefing: Public
Health in Latin America", http://www.cgdev.org/event/briefing-public-health-latin-
america] bcr 8-28-2016
While Latin America has made significant advances in public health, the burden of disease
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is a threat to human rights, economic prosperity, and regional stability .

China war turns [imperialism] best evidence proves neg controls the
causality debate
Joshua Goldstein, War and Gender, p. 412, 2001 , Intl Rel Prof @ American
U, [Google Books] bcr 8-17-2016
First, peace activists face a dilemma in thinking about causes of war and working
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on injustice as the main cause of war seems to be empirically inadequate.
*Advantage 1-Soft Power*
No HR Culpability

You cant hold WHINSEC accountable for abuse we meet our due
diligence and attendees operate under their militarys codes
Lee A. Rials, Tico Times, May 13 2014, Education Ft. Leavenworth; Public Affairs
Officer for the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) since 2001. That
follows eight years as a Junior ROTC instructor at Randolph-Clay Comprehensive High School in
southwest Georgia. Before that, I served 21 years in the Army as an infantry officer, four of those years in
Public Affairs positions. ["WHINSEC officer responds to Code Pink",
http://www.ticotimes.net/2014/05/13/whinsec-officer-responds-to-code-pink] bcr 8-10-2016
WHINSEC replaced the Armys School of the Americas, and while its mission and purpose

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talk with students and faculty, and review the instructional materials being used.
*Advantage 2-Human Rights*
WHINSEC Not That Bad

Their impacts are conflated and Wilkins is wrong actual research


into the institution debases their transparency and rights abuse
claims
Ruth Blakely, Critical Approaches to Security: An Introduction to
Theories and Methods pp. 163, 2013, lecturer in International Relations at the University
of Kent. Her recent book, State Terrorism and Neoliberalism: The North in the South, examines the ways
in which liberal democratic states from the Global North have used state violence and state terrorism to
achieve their foreign policy objectives. She is currently working on a project, funded by the UK's
Economic and Social Research Council, to analyse the globalisation of extraordinary rendition and secret
detention [Google Books] bcr 8-10-2016
Through these conversations, along with my own observations of the training, I was

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in any other US military institution for either its own or foreign forces.
A2 modelling

Policy shifts fail to signal change and spillover globally


David Lake, Global Governance, 10-1-2010, Professor of Social Sciences, distinguished professor of
political science at UC San Diego ["Making America safe for the world: multilateralism and the rehabilitation of US authority.",
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Making+America+safe+for+the+world%3A+multilateralism+and+the...-a0245303179] bcr 10/1/2016

President Obama and his administration appear to recognize the need to bolster the authority and

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even deeper into multilateral institutions that can provide real checks on potential opportunism.

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