This Essay highlights two features of modern war powers that hide from public view decisions that take the country to war: the executive branch’s exploitation of interpretive ambiguity to defend unilateral presidential authority, and its dispersal of the power to use force to the outer limbs of the bureaucracy.

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阴险的战争势力现状

本文强调了现代战争权力的两个特征，这些特征隐藏在公众视野之外，导致国家陷入战争：行政部门利用解释上的模糊性来捍卫单方面总统权威，以及将使用武力的权力分散到国家的外围。官僚。