War Powers
Do the Strikes on al Shabaab Stretch the AUMF or The Unit Self-defense Doctrine?
Erica Gaston Fri, Mar 18, 2016, 10:00 AM
Charlie Savage’s piece on the legal basis for the March 5 U.S. strike against an al Shabaab training camp, which allegedly killed 150 fighters, raises the intriguing question of whether the AUMF has been stretched yet again, this time to justify U.S. operations against al Shabaab as a whole.