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The Obama administration's use of the 2001 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force to justify airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
The Obama administration’s air campaign was dominated by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) strikes concentrated in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, while traditional manned-aircraft strikes remained common in...
The Obama administration carried out drone and airstrike campaigns outside formal declared wars in several countries, most prominently Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, and by some accounts also Libya; ind...
President Obama’s August 2013 decision to seek Congressional authorization and delay immediate strikes after the chemical attack in Ghouta was a high-stakes political gamble that split lawmakers, refl...
The Obama administration grounded both its use of force against Osama bin Laden and its timing of congressional notification in two intersecting legal strands: the 2001 Authorization for Use of Milita...
The Obama administration primarily invoked the post‑9/11 Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2001 and the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force concerning Iraq to justify strikes against...
The Obama administration primarily invoked two statutory authorizations — the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (2001 AUMF, Pub. L. 107-40) and the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Fo...
The Obama administration’s intervention in Libya in 2011 was primarily justified as a limited, international action to protect civilians from an imminent massacre by Muammar Qaddafi’s forces and to pr...
President Obama relied principally on two congressional authorizations when explaining legal justifications for airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and for some strikes extending into Syria: the 2001 Auth...