War Powers
War Powers and the Su-22 Episode: Third-Party Defense of Coalition Partners
Robert Chesney Tue, Jun 20, 2017, 9:51 AM
Early Sunday evening, a US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet shot down a Syrian Air Force Su-22 that had just completed a bombing run targeting US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the Raqqa region. The episode raises important questions under the U.N. Charter (see Adil Ahmad Haque’s analysis here). But what about U.S. domestic law?