Share This: On Friday, March 5, The New York Times published an article entitled Biden Seeks Update for a Much-Stretched Law That Authorizes the War on Terrorism by veteran reporter Charlie Savage. The law in question is known as AUMF, or Authorization of Use of Military Force, and was minted shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks as a kind of skeleton key to any limit of U.S. military force. In the article, Savage unearths a major problem with U.S. foreign policy, or more accurately, the U.S.’s proclivity to use military force, via drone strikes, as a backstop to foreign policy good and bad.