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Alt CausesAlt Cause for CMR A. Afghanistan, budget, DADT, RMA King, 2009 (Will, Fort Weathenworth Lampoon, Army News, “Panel discusses civil-military relations at Fort Leavenworth”) JFS "The president has arranged it so that he is free to ignore the advice of his uniformed chiefs and field commanders because he will have cover of General Jones by his side, and other senior military in his administration," Kohn said, "and at the same time demonstrates that he has been reaching out to the military and wants to have military judgment." The four areas where Kohn sees potential civil-military problems in the future are in Afghanistan, the budget, gays in the military and the restructuring of military forces away from Cold War structure. He said budgetary issues would create the most problems of those four areas. B. Obama is too slow Feaver 9 (Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University, Director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS), and former special advisor on the National Security Council Staff – ‘Foreign Policy: Woodward discloses troops needed” http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113022583) Here is the crucial bit: "... But Obama's deliberative pace — he has held only one meeting of his top national security advisers to discuss McChrystal's report so far — is a source of growing consternation within the military. 'Either accept the assessment or correct it, or let's have a discussion,' one Pentagon official said. 'Will you read it and tell us what you think?' Within the military, this official said, 'There is a frustration. A significant frustration. A serious frustration.' "The civil-military dimensions of the challenge confronting President Obama could hardly be more clearly spelled out. This is significant and serious. C. NMD Smith 9-21 (Jeffrey, Staff Writer – Washington Post, “Missile Defense's Shelving Reflected Military's Concerns”, Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/20/AR2009092002532.html)JFS Call it another revolt of the generals. More than 13 years ago, the nation's military leaders told civilian defense officials they wanted to limit spending on missile defenses and to emphasize the protection of forces deployed overseas over defense of the American homeland against a long-range missile threat. Last week, after a lengthy internal Pentagon review and against the backdrop of new limits on overall military spending, the generals again threw their weight behind a relative contraction of the effort to defend against long-range missile attacks. They cited needed budgetary savings and more immediate threats in demanding faster work to protect overseas forces and bases against shorter-range attack. The latest shift shelved a plan to deploy in Europe an advanced radar and interceptors of long-range missiles by 2017. And it adds impetus to the Pentagon's request earlier this year for a cut of about 15 percent in overall missile defense spending, a scaling back of the deployment of long-range missile interceptors in Alaska and California, and the cancellation of three costly Reagan-era missile defense programs that officials say had threatened to balloon out of budgetary control. D. Tensions inevitable – Iraq, budgets, Cold War, social issues Kohn 8 (Richard, World Affairs Journal, Prof of History @ U of North Carolina, http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/articles/2008-Winter/full-civil-military.html)JFS While civil-military relations at the beginning of the Republic involved real fears of a coup, for the last two centuries the concern has revolved around relative influence: can the politicians (often divided among themselves) really “control” the military? Can the generals and admirals secure the necessary resources and autonomy to accomplish the government’s purposes with minimal loss of blood and treasure? Until World War II, the influence of the regular military even in its own world was limited. After the war, the integration of foreign and military policies, the creation of the intelligence community, new weapons systems, and other elements of the Cold War national security establishment decidedly enhanced the military’s say in policy deliberations. The end of the Cold War and an operational tour de force in the first Persian Gulf War cemented the military’s position as the public’s most trusted and esteemed institution. During the Clinton administration, the military leadership had a virtual veto over military policy, particularly the terms and conditions of interventions overseas. The power of the military has waxed and waned since the 1940s, but not a single secretary of defense has entered office trusting the armed forces to comply faithfully with his priorities rather than their own. Four problems, in particular, will intensify the normal friction: the endgame in Iraq, unsustainable military budgets, the mismatch between twenty-first century threats and a Cold War military establishment, and social issues, gays in the military being the most incendiary. Directory: files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Integer programming and game theory files -> 4 Integer Programming files -> Bpa vehicle Window Repair Scenario #1 task: Procure vehicle window relacement. 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