Let’s stipulate two things on which it should be easy to agree: The president of the United States should not have the authority to drag the country into a protracted war unilaterally, but he or she must have the power to respond quickly to military crises.
That puts the president’s war powers in a legally ambiguous situation that shifts over time.
Paul D. Miller is a contributing writer for The Dispatch and professor of the practice of international affairs at Georgetown University. He previously served on the national security council staff under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. His most recent book is "Choosing Defeat: The Twenty-Year Saga of How America Lost Afghanistan."
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