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Observation 1: Inherency

The Department of Defense has outlined goals for moving away from fossil fuels.

Brasher et al 2012 (com/professionals/lance-t-brasher, com/professionals/chirag-k-dedania, com/professionals/andrew-l-baldinger Affliates Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher %26 Flom LLP "Department of Defense Initiatives Focus on Renewable Energy Projects", http://www.skadden.com/insights/department-defense-initiatives-focus-renewable-energy-projects~%23ftn1-http://www.skadden.com/insights/department-defense-initiatives-focus-renewable-energy-projects, Vance)
The recession, improvements in energy efficiency, low natural gas prices, ratepayer unwillingness
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2030 are set to exceed %2410 billion in renewable energy spending annually.

However, DoD can’t meet current renewable energy goals

Castillo 2012 (Ariel, Ph.D., School of Engineering and Applied Science of The George Washington University, "Determination of Solar Energy Transition Potential of Large Organizations: An Application to Department of Defense Facilities and Non-Tactical Vehicles", (http://gradworks.umi.com/3481180.pdf)CD-http://gradworks.umi.com/3481180.pdf)CD)

In FY05, the DoD established a much more rigorous long range renewable energy goal
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0% section 2911(e) goal (DoD, 2011).13

Thus the plan: The Department of Defense should use a 30 year power purchase agreement to contract the development and implementation of solar technology for military facilities in the United States.

Observation 2: Advantages

Advantage 1: Readiness

5 different scenarios can lead to U.S. electrical grid collapse

Two events that may have influenced DoD consideration on electric grid vulnerabilities are the 9
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by system operator errors, weather damage, or terrorist attacks. The main
risk identified was from a successful terrorist attack (CRS, 2005).34 The
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the common cause of the outage of three FE 345-kV transmission lines
and one 138-kV line (Natural Resource of Canada and Department of Energy, 2006).38

Loss of the electric grid crushes military readiness.

Loudermilk 2011 (Micah J. is a Research Associate for the Energy %26 Environmental Security Policy program with the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University, "Small Nuclear Reactors: Enabling Energy Security for Warfighters", http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/small-nuclear-reactors-enabling-energy-security-for-warfighters-http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/small-nuclear-reactors-enabling-energy-security-for-warfighters, VD)

Especially on the domestic front, the need for energy security on military bases is
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as cyber attacks represent a very real and growing threat to the grid.
Advances in U.S. military technology have further increased the risk that a
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blackout would impair the ability of troops to operate in forward operating areas.
Recognition of these facts led the Defense Science Board to recommend "islanding" U.S. military installations to mitigate the electrical grid’s vulnerabilities. Although DOD has undertaken a wide array of energy efficiency programs and sought to construct renewable energy facilities on bases, these endeavors will fall far short of the desired goals and still leave bases unable to function in the event of long-term outages.

Scenario 1: North Korea

Readiness key to solve North Korea war

Ham 2012 (Walter T, quoting the General of the 8^th Army, "General: High Readiness Key to Deter North Korean Threats", (http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=117463)CD)

SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 10, 2012 – Maintaining a high state
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as the deputy commander for police with the NATO training mission in Afghanistan.

North Korea is the flashpoint for a nuclear war.

Ryall October 2 2012 (Julian Telegraph Correspondent in Tokyo, "North and South Korea ’on the verge of nuclear war’", http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9580536/North-and-South-Korea-on-the-verge-of-nuclear-war.html-http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9580536/North-and-South-Korea-on-the-verge-of-nuclear-war.html, Vance)

Pak Kil-yon, Pyongyang’s vice-foreign minster, put the blame for
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are unhappy with the Lee government’s hard-line policies towards the North.

Scenario 2: Ethnic Conflict

The stage is already set for ethnic conflicts left over by colonial power diffusion, U.S military’s focus on human rights helps alleviate these issues.

Wimmer 2004 (Andreas professor of sociology at the Princeton University, "Introduction: Facing ethnic conflicts", http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/wimmer/FEC.intro.pdf-http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/wimmer/FEC.intro.pdf, Vance)

POLICY APPROACHES¶ In parallel to this rising public interest in ethnic conflicts, the
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domains of French, British, or Dutch¶ influence did not shrink.

Status Quo means U.S. intervention is inevitable, absent intervention these conflicts become mass atrocities that create regional instability.

Andersen 2010 (COMMANDER KARLYNA L, United States Navy, "HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION: IS IT AN EMERGING RESPONSIBILITY?", http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA521356%26Location=U2%26doc=GetTRDoc.pdf-http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA521356%26Location=U2%26doc=GetTRDoc.pdf, Vance)

The concept of the responsibility to protect not only the peoples of one’s own state
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adopt a flexible and tailored strategy which assesses the justification for humanitarian intervention.

Readiness is key to contain and mitigate these conflicts.

Sewall et al 2010 (Sarah, Dwight Raymond, Sally Chin, edu/news-events/news/articles/maro-conf of Human Rights, Mass Atrocity Response Operations:¶ A MILITARY PLANNING HANDBOOK, Pg. 14, Vance)

The Next MARO Situation? It remains to be seen in what context halting mass
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force. Thus, mass killings could haunt US forces as they exit Iraq

These Interventions solve- immediate use of hard power is key
Western and Goldstein 11 (Jon and Joshua, December, JON WESTERN is Five College Associate Professor of International Relations at Mount Holyoke College. JOSHUA S. GOLDSTEIN is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at American University and the author of Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide., "Humanitarian Intervention Comes of Age." Humanitarian Intervention Comes of Age., (accessed via ebsco)CD)
EVER SINCE U.S. marines stormed the Somali coast in 1992, the
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,500 troops to save the government and the peacekeeping mission from collapse.

Ideology is structured to make the U.S. military look bad, however we must strive to make the world a better place through pragmatic means.

Rice 2008 (Condoleezza, org/wiki/Stanford_University as a political science professor and the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the org/wiki/Hoover_Institution, faculty member of the org/wiki/Stanford_Graduate_School_of_Business and a director of its Global Center for Business and the Economy, Former Secretary of State, "Rethinking the National Interest", Foreign Affairs, Accessed EbscoHost, Vance)

In these pages in 2000, I decried the role of the United States,
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the power of our values, we can succeed in such work again.

Advantage 2: effective heg

Plan solves effective heg – 2 reasons

A. Saves money

Wu 2012 (Michael is Truman’s Advocacy Policy Director, "Renewable Energy is Key to Military Strategy", http://trumanproject.org/doctrine-blog/renewable-energy-is-key-to-military-strategy/-http://trumanproject.org/doctrine-blog/renewable-energy-is-key-to-military-strategy/, Vance)

Our military leaders have one paramount priority: keeping America safe. The military identifies
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strategy of our military leaders, and put America’s security above shortsighted politics.

B. Over-seas fuel conveys

Baer 10 (LIEUTENANT COLONEL SCOTT D, "OPERATIONAL ENERGY METRICS: INCREASING FLEXIBILITY WHILE REDUCING VULNERABILITY", (http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a522008.pdf)CD)

Over seventy-percent of the tonnage convoys transport in Iraq and Afghanistan is to
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weapons systems but addressing the biggest consumers looks like an appropriate place to begin

====Historical studies and social psychology prove heg solves war- Multipolarity empirically leads to great power conflict====
Wohlforth 2009 (William C. Wohlforth is a professor of government at Dartmouth College., "Unipolarity, Status Competition, and Great Power War’, (Accessed via project muse)CD)

Status is a social, psychological, and cultural phenomenon. Its expression appears endlessly
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leading states whose portfolios of capabilities are not only close but also mismatched.

Even Layne concedes that there will be a transition war

Layne 12 (Chrisopher, Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A%26M University, "This Time It’s Real: The End of Unipolarity and the Pax Americana.",International Studies Quarterly; Mar2012, (http://web.ebscohost.com.vortex3.uco.edu:2050/ehost/detail?sid=a52c0308-468d-417f-b685-1fe9e14bb49e%40sessionmgr10%26vid=1%26hid=10%26bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d~~%23db=a9h%26AN=73489764)CD)
As U.S. power wanes over the next decade or so, the
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This could spawn pockets of instability around the world and even general global instability

Heg is sustainable- 7 reasons
Dowd 12 (Alan W, April 1, contributing editor for The American Legion Magazine, "The Myth of America’s Decline", (http://www.legion.org/magazine/162501/myth-americas-decline)CD-http://www.legion.org/magazine/162501/myth-americas-decline)CD)
No wonder that 70 percent of Americans believe the country is "in decline."
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States. This confluence of strengths gives the United States a decisive edge.

US exercise of heg is inevitable- it’s a question of effectiveness.

Kagan 2011 (Robert is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and a senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution. JAN 24, VOL. 16, NO. 18 The Weekly Standard "The Price of Power" http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/price-power_533696.html?nopager=1)CD)

In theory, the United States could refrain from intervening abroad. But, in
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foolish calculation that, in matters of national security, can prove so unfortunate

Observation 3: Solvency

Solar saves the military grid- Diesel generators fail

2. Critical missions at military installations are vulnerable to loss from commercial power outage and inadequate backup power supplies" (DSB, 2008)39
Providing for distributed energy operations on DoD bases could help meet electric grid vulnerability challenges
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meet the electric grid vulnerability challenges facing the DoD and promote energy security.
While some distributed energy capability on bases presently exist in the form of generators,
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times and maintenance necessary for current base generators is provided at Figure 8.

PPA’s for domestic military solar power has empirically worked and cut costs.

Shannon October 8 2012 (John columnist Borderstan, for green energy, sustainable and economic development, "com/10/solar-power-gets-the-might-of-the-u-s-military-behind-it/", http://www.borderstan.com/10/solar-power-gets-the-might-of-the-u-s-military-behind-it/-http://www.borderstan.com/10/solar-power-gets-the-might-of-the-u-s-military-behind-it/, Vance)

As the production of solar panels have ramped up, prices have dropped dramatically.
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S. military and utility companies. Many more such agreements are pending.

Domestically produced solar production practices will be used abroad.

Galbraith 2012 (Kate former reporter for The New York Times, The Economist, and A Nieman fellow in journalism at Harvard University, "Texas army bases go green, but economic challenges remain", http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2012-06-08/texas-army-bases-go-green-economic-challenges-remain~%23.UD5_et1mS0N-http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2012-06-08/texas-army-bases-go-green-economic-challenges-remain, Vance)

Solar panels are popping up across Fort Bliss, which is the nation’s largest army
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Hood have embraced it, but high up-front costs pose challenges.

Forward deployed solar-powered facilities dramatically reduce fuel consumption – India Company proves.

Humes 11 (Edward, a frequent contributor to Sierra, "BLOOD + OIL", (accessed via EBSCO)VD)

THE MARINES OF INDIA COMPANY harbored grave doubts about the experimental solar-power gear
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), and fewer Marines assigned to convoy duty instead of their primary mission.

Current incentives already exist, but fail due to split incentives and lack of information required to internally complete their task.

Specifically, two major problems hindering energy management in DoD facilities and non-tactical
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investment decisions at specific bases and facilities.

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