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What Can a Secretive Funding Authority Tell Us About the Pentagon’s Use of Force Interpretations?

Katherine Yon Ebright Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 8:01 AM

An obscure counterterrorism authority has been used to create and control proxy forces throughout the war on terror—its use across Africa and Asia points to broader interpretations of the 2001 AUMF and the president’s inherent authority to use force than previously disclosed.

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Brief for Captain Nathan Smith's Challenge to Presidential War-making

Bruce Ackerman Tue, Apr 4, 2017, 11:06 AM

Here is the brief for Captain Smith that was filed yesterday afternoon in the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, along with the joint appendix. The case will be ready for argument later this spring. The brief represents a great deal of new research into the fundamental issues by David Remes, myself and a team of Yale law students.

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What Can a Secretive Funding Authority Tell Us About the Pentagon’s Use of Force Interpretations?

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Brief for Captain Nathan Smith's Challenge to Presidential War-making

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