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As President Biden faces the challenges posed by China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, it is worth examining the “war powers” wielded by the executive — pursuant to both Article II and related legislation — and whether the current limitations on the executive make us genuinely safer. They do not. Under Article II of the Constitution, the president is identified as “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into t...

As President Biden faces the challenges posed by China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, it is worth examining the “war powers” wielded by the executive — pursuant to both Article II and related legislation — and whether the current limitations on the executive make us genuinely safer. They do not. Under Article II of the Constitution, the president is identified as “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into t...

HEADLINES & GLOBAL NEWS By   (Photo : Andrew Goedl/U.S. Army via Getty Images) U.S., Turkey conduct third combined joint patrol in Syria NORTHEAST, SYRIA - OCTOBER 4: In this handout provided by the U.S. Army, U.S. and Turkish military forces conduct the third ground combined joint patrol inside the security mechanism area in northeast Syria, Oct. 4, 2019. The patrol allowed both militaries to observe first-hand progress on destroyed fortification that is a concern...

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow (signed by the author!) and I'm reading it with great interest, even though I'm totally swamped with oth

Lawmakers call Biden’s Yemen policy a ‘historic shift’ in US foreign relations When President Joe Biden announced the US will end support for Saudi Arabia’s offensive operations in Yemen, Rep. Ro Khanna felt the decision was a vindication of a fight he’s been engaged in for years. In 2017, Khanna, a progressive Democrat from California, introduced a measure that came to be known as the Yemen War Powers resolution. It was intended to curtail US military support for the Saudi-led campai...

Just 36 days. That's how long Joe Biden was president before the bombs started falling.

his only error was leaving out the critical US role in all of this. Because the US — alongside its Saudi, Qatari UAE and Turkish partners — were spending money on weapons and facilitating their transfer to Syria. So Bidens only error was actually omitting the key US role. But Biden actually apologized for this — not because he left out the US role — but because his admission of the allies role angered them. While Biden admitted the truth in public, other top officials have admitted it ...

The Constitution requires congressional approval for military action on this scale.

ADVERTISEMENT "We are committed to working with Congress to ensure that the authorizations for the use of military force currently on the books are replaced with a narrow and specific framework that will ensure we can protect Americans from terrorist threats while ending the forever wars," Psaki said in a statement Friday. The bill from Kaine and Young would repeal the 1991 and 2002 authorizations for the use of military force (AUMFs), which both deal with Iraq. Senators sought to rein in the ...

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