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Heather Brandon Smith
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War Power Politics: Heather Brandon Smith & Rita Siemion on the Rise and Stall of AUMFs
The so-called war on terror will soon be twenty years old -- and there is no end in sight. The legal basis for this endless war is grounded in two authorizations for the use of…