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Topics

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Everything you need to know 6 areas to topic

  • Military
  • Peace Corps
  • Americorps
  • Senior Corps
  • Citizen Corps
  • Learn & Serve America

Really only 3 areas

  • Military
  • Peace Corps
  • Domestic service - learn & serve america, senior corps, peacecorps, citizen corps

In order of popularity:

  1. Military - best impacts
  2. Peace Corps - 2nd best impacts
  3. Domestic service - no impacts

Cases

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Military

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  • Mandatory military service
    • draft
      • create equality
      • prevent wars
      • no one wants to go to war
      • liberals want
    • Links to lots of DA's
  • DADT
    • Best aff
      • Forces neg to argue gays are bad
      • Lots of evidence
    • Have to be careful with language
    • Careful of Bi-CP
  • Women in combat
    • Forbidden from combat in status quo
      • Stated: women aren't as strong, cohesion
      • Actual: Sexism, backward/conservative military culture
    • Remove restriction
    • Increase women serving
    • Feminist critique
  • Largest area - incentive to join
    • More college $$$
    • Citizen Soldiers

Peace Corps

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  1. Advantage - AIDS
  2. Country-specific cases - neg won't have links
  3. General development, hegemony, soft power
  • Easy to counter-plan
    • Non-governmental organizationss
    • Another country
    • Something like peace corp
  • Development kritik
  • Colonization kritik

Domestic Service

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  • Impacts: disaster response
  • Some type of citizenship - good for democracy
  • Kritik-able
  • Weak impacts
  • Most likely to see Americorps
    • Big mistake
    • Links to too many DA's
  • Run Learn & Serve or Senior Corps
  • Do not run multiple organizations
    • Too easy to CP 2/3 then link DA's to 3rd

Negative

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  • Topicality - teams must be reigned in
    • Aff will create new organizations
    • Position: Americorps is what americorps is
  • No good DA's except for maybe Politics
  • Running against PC - soft power bad
  • Running against Mil - soft power good
    • US leadership good
    • maybe consultation CP's - make sense
  • Kritik militarization - "might makes right" is wrong
    • Hard power is bad
  • Development Kritik against PC
  • Good evidence that PC is bad because US inserts spies
  • Domestic
    • federalism DA
    • Modeling federalist system in other countries
    • Politics
    • As many CP's as you want, states & faith-based
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