The Constitution did address declaring war, giving Congress that power. However, we haven't done it that way in 75 years. What is war? How do we go to war? Are we at war now? All questions that are more and more applicable.

1. How The United
States Declares
War--
Or Is Supposed To

2. How does the United States go to war?
It’s not as clear cut as many think.
And it’s been a while since we’ve done it as
laid out in the Constitution.

3. The last time, as written in the Constitution,
War was declared by a joint resolution of
Congress and executed by the President was
against Rumania (yes, spelled that way) on 4
June 1942.

4. Article One, Section Eight, of the Constitution declares
that “Congress shall have the power to declare War.”.
However, it’s not designated exactly how Congress
does that. In fact, war isn’t in Section Eight until
Clause 11, where it also allows us to hire pirates to
attack our enemies.
Seriously.

5. We’ve Declared War that Way
11 Times.
The first was17 June 1812 when we declared was
against Great Britain.
On Mexico. 12 May 1846
On Spain. 25 April 1898
On Germany. 6 April 1917
On Austria-Hungary. 7 Dec 1917
On Japan. 8 Dec 1941
On Germany. 11 Dec 1941
On Italy. 11 Dec 1941
On Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania. 4 June 1942

6. Korea, Vietnam, Dominican Republic,
Grenada (remember those?), Lebanon,
Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. etc. were Congress
allowing the President to send our troops
in harm’s way, which is opposite the way
the Founding Fathers intended.

7. Technically we’re not even at war any
more.
The “War” in Iraq ended on 28 December
2014.
The “War” in Afghanistan ended even
earlier, on 15 December 2011.
This guy didn’t get the memo.

8. We are currently are conducting military
actions in six countries (that we know of
publicly):
Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen,
and now, Syria. However, the real numbers is
in the dozens given the deployment of drones
and Special Operations Forces.

9. U.S. SOF (Special Operations Forces), of
which I was a member, are deployed in over
100 countries around the world. The goal is
normally to get others to fight a war on the
side we desire or defend against aggressors.
We also conduct Direct Action and Strategic
Recon and some other things.

10. Carl Von Clausewitz, who by just saying his
name makes you a military ‘expert’, stated
that:
Military Strategy

11. Above all, military leaders need a strategic
goal.
Unfortunately, such goals have been
nebulous, ever since the last formally
declared war:
World War II.
And thus, we actually have not truly ‘won’ a
war.
I’m not certain if such a thing is possible in
the modern world. With the world remaining
intact.

12. As contained in an unclassified CIA document, the definition of
victory in the War on Terror is defined as:
Victory against terrorism will not occur as a single, defining
moment. It will not be marked by the likes of the surrender
ceremony on the
deck of the USS Missouri that ended World War II. However,
through the sustained effort to compress the scope and
capability of terrorist organizations, isolate them regionally, and
destroy them within state borders, the United States and its
friends and allies will secure a world in which our children can
live free from fear and where the threat of terrorist attacks does
not define our daily lives.
Victory, therefore, will be secured only as long as the United
States and the international community maintain their vigilance
and work tirelessly to prevent terrorists from inflicting horrors
like those of September 11, 2001.
The War on Terror

13. From a military perspective I find the previous
definition of winning rather vague and nebulous with
no end-game.
What must be factored in to our never-ending
military endeavors is the military-industrial complex.
Has war become so profitable that the United States
will be in perpetual war so certain parties can make
money?
The War on Terror

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