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Iranian military officer (1957–2020)
Multiple Biden-era strikes were carried out without a new, specific congressional authorization: the administration notified Congress of some strikes but did not seek pre‑authorization for actions suc...
Yes — there have been arrest warrants tied to Donald J. Trump, most notably a local warrant issued after a 2023 Fulton County indictment; international requests and media reports have sometimes sugges...
Barack Obama presided over U.S. military actions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and operations against ISIL, generally framed as multilateral or coalition efforts and ext...
Iranian state media broadcast imagery from the July 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt on Donald Trump alongside Persian text widely translated as “This time, the bullet won’t miss,” an a...
From 2017–2021 the Trump administration did not open a new large-scale, prolonged interstate war, but it did order multiple major military actions and oversaw continued U.S. engagement in ongoing conf...
Donald Trump’s military stance departed from recent presidential norms by mixing early public praise and appointments of military figures with later politicization of the officer corps, unilateral use...
The Obama and Trump administrations oversaw continuation of the post-9/11 “War on Terror” across Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia and Yemen, producing mixed strategic outcomes—degrading ISIS’s territ...
Since 2016 the has pushed U.S. foreign policy toward an “America First” posture that privileges transactional deals, economic protectionism, immigration control and cultural influence abroad, producin...
The Constitution splits war powers: Congress alone may “declare war” and control appropriations, while the President is Commander in Chief; that split creates both clear limits and large gray areas ab...
The claim that "Trump began six wars within a year" is not supported by contemporary reporting: while the Trump presidency used force repeatedly — including a high-profile Syrian strike and the killin...
The United States has a long history of conducting bombings and military strikes abroad without a formal congressional declaration of war, including secret bombing campaigns in Southeast Asia and nume...
Presidents since George W. Bush have relied on past Authorizations for Use of Military Force (notably the 2001 AUMF and 2002 AUMF) and expansive Office of Legal Counsel memos to permit strikes without...
Congress reacted with a sharp partisan split: many Senate and House Republicans praised President Trump’s June 22, 2025 strikes on Iranian nuclear sites as “strong” and necessary, while most Democrats...
The Trump administration (2017–2021) both reduced and escalated different armed conflicts and crises: it negotiated a conditional U.S. troop withdrawal that preceded the Taliban’s return to power in A...