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Resolved: In the United States, national service ought to be compulsory Author: Shaylee Tulane Edited by: Kyle Cheesewright TOC \o "1-1" Topic Overview: PAGEREF _Toc333233873 \h 3 Additional Reading: PAGEREF _Toc333233874 \h 8 AFFIRMATIVE CASE PAGEREF _Toc333233875 \h 9 AFF Extensions: PAGEREF _Toc333233876 \h 17 Answers: PAGEREF _Toc333233877 \h 22 Negative Case PAGEREF _Toc333233878 \h 27 Negative Extensions: PAGEREF _Toc333233879 \h 32 Answers PAGEREF _Toc333233880 \h 36 Topic Overview: This topic comes at an interesting point of US history. Within the past 10 years we have seen a significant drop in military personal. However, with the increa sed violence by ISIL/ISIS and or other non-state actor organizations in recent years it has become a question of what the United States will do military to address such violence. But , before unpacking the resolution further, there are some key questions that we must consider. F irst, who would be called for the national service? But also, when would the national service be utilized? Definitions: National Service- There are multiple ways to define National service. Either definition is important to shaping the affirmative. Cambridge Dictionary defines national service as " thesystemin somecountriesby which youngpeople,especiallymen, areordered by law tospendaperiodoftimein the armedforces " However , Ox ford Dictionary defines it as " A period ofcompulsoryservice in thearmed forcesof some countries duringpeacetime. a federal program that enables young people to pay back government loans through community work " The basic understanding is national service is young adult doing service for their country. However, service in this case can be military or community service. This indicates that national service does not equate to a draft into the military. However, the affirmative should narrow the affirmative to one or another . In an article done by the Huffington post, Ed Credo, George Munoz and Frank Islam explore the differences between the draft and national service. Crego et all. 2013 ( Ed Credo, is a management consultant who has led major consulting practices specializing in strategic planning, customer focus, and organizational transformation. George Munoz, is currently chair of the Munoz Investment Advisory Group. George was the Assistant Secretary and CFO of the United States Treasury and President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation during the Clinton administration. Frank Islam was the founder of the QSS Group an information technology consulting firm. "National Service Not Military Service." Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-munoz-frank-islam-and-ed-crego/national-service-not-mili_b_2758991.html) Since the early 1980s, requests for shared commitments or sacrifices have not been too visible on the country's radar screen. Until the past few years, the national refrain appears to have been "Ask what you can do for yourself." Service to country seemed to belong to those in the armed forces, the well off or the do-gooders. We are not recommending that the draft be reinstated to correct. We believe, however, that some type of national service should be made mandatory. The service could take one of many forms, for example, military, community, or education. During the 2008 campaign for the presidency, John McCain and Barack Obama both expressed a desire for more Americans to be engaged in national service when they shared the stage at Columbia University at a forum commemorating the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. However, it is Jim Lehrer who speaks most articulately on this topic. Beyond what the national service is, both the affirmative and negative should establish the terms of the service . This means that affirmatives ought to define when individuals will be in the national service, the length of the service and who will be service. Compulsory- Unlike national service, compulsory should be a term LD students are more familiar with. Typically, "compulsory" is defined as " forced; coerced by legal process or by force of statute," as according to Blacks Law Dictionary. The general premise is that national service will be required for everyone within a given region. But both the affirmative and negative should narrow their analysis of the topic to compulsory being a required amount of service to the United States. However, this does pose some questions. The most important, who will be forced to do the national service? Past statues in other countries have focused on mainly males from the ages of 18-22 years old. However, because the resolution does not set to perimeters of