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The ability of the US President to unilaterally seize allied territory, considering constitutional, statutory, and international law constraints.
A U.S. president is constrained from unilaterally seizing allied territory by a mix of constitutional allocation of war powers to Congress, statutory limits (notably the War Powers Resolution and appr...
established and expanded military bases in through a combination of wartime bilateral arrangements, a formal 1951 defense treaty with that carved out "defense areas" and permissive jurisdictional rule...
such as under U.S. law, would need to legislate the political status of that land after it had lawfully become U.S. territory—most plausibly via a treaty of cession or purchase negotiated by and ratif...
A foreign country cannot simply buy or unilaterally annex a U.S. state: any transfer of sovereignty would trigger U.S. constitutional mechanisms, require extensive domestic approvals, and collide with...