Presidential Policy Guidance
"Areas of Active Hostilities" and Authority to Authorize Attacks Without White House Involvement
Robert Chesney Thu, May 18, 2017, 10:50 AM
Yesterday U.S. News ran an article titled “‘Areas of Active Hostilities’: Trump’s Troubling Increases to Obama’s Wars.” As the title suggests, the thrust of the article is that there is something wrong with the Obama administration’s “areas of active hostilities” concept—or at least there’s something wrong with it now that it is in the hands of a different president.