What does the War Powers Resolution and the U.S. Constitution say on this subject? On Jan. 21 and Feb. 4, the president, as is required by the War Powers Resolution, sent reports to Congress ...

The War Powers Resolution has proven impotent. No President has ever conceded its constitutionality, though many have acted “consistent with” its 60-day limit on foreign interventions.

AUKUS has a fundamental, unaddressed challenge: the differences in how each member nation exercises its war powers. The AUKUS ...

Daniel DePetris is a fellow at Defense Priorities and a foreign affairs columnist for the Chicago Tribune. Submit a letter, ...

Syria may have been a bridge too far for untrammeled executive war powers. That’s good for democracy.

A member of Congress could theoretically introduce a war powers resolution to cease U.S. support for Ukraine right now, even if the United States is not directly at war with Russia. A previous war ...

In the wake of US attacks against Houthi militants in Yemen, a scholar of presidential power to use the military examines the history and present of the laws around US military action.

On March 12, John Yoo and Robert Delahunty made the case in these pages for why Biden’s cooperation on war-powers reform would be a mistake — and, just as important in their view, for why ...

In the wake of US attacks against Houthi militants in Yemen, a scholar of presidential power to use the military examines the history and present of the laws around US military action.

That authority has shifted to the president, however, due to the “forever war” AUMFs, which do not expire - including the 2002 Iraq AUMF - passed since Sep 11, 2001, attacks.