This House would replace national militaries with a standing UN force.

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Classic IR motion that keeps re-emerging because the underlying tension never resolves: nation-state sovereignty vs. collective-security efficiency.

Background

The UN currently fields about 70,000 peacekeepers across 11 missions, contributed by member states under blue-helmet rotation. There is no standing UN military force; the Military Staff Committee envisioned in Article 47 of the UN Charter has never functioned as designed. Brian Urquhart proposed a UN rapid-reaction force in the 1990s; the recommendation died in the Security Council. The structural problem is recursive: a standing force needs funding from member states, and those member states want their own military or none at all.

Government opens with

National militaries are duplicative, escalatory, and politically captured by domestic factions.

Opposition responds with

A monopoly on legitimate force without a constituency to check it is the definition of tyranny.