Lawfare Archive: HASC Hearing on Outside Perspectives on the AUMF
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The Constitutional Importance of Congress Acting to Authorize Military Force
Mister wood, general keane and mister wiodes are asked to give their views on the constitutionald legal importance of congress acting to authorize a president's use of military force. Mr Wood: "I just have a moral problem with the idea of asking us. Troops in a to engage in a long term set of military operations without them knowing that the political branches of this, of their government, are behind them" General Keane: "It is probably true that in some very tangible, immediate way it doesn't matter all that much." Mister Wiodes: "We should go through the exercise, as a democratic polity, of describing the war that we actually
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