Throughout the world history, almost each nation has been engaged in political games, which have later turned into the implicit or explicit armed conflicts. In most countries, including the US, the presidents are legally the national army’s commanders-in-chief (White House, 2020). However, the major issue concerning the world today is the fact that most of the armed conflicts are executed beyond the nationally accepted law. On the example of the US, it may be explained that despite the President being legally responsible for the country’s military forces, the declaration of any conflict is impossible without the Congress’ decision.
On the one hand, the situation with the US military state is now quite controversial due to various conflicts taken place over the past years. If officially there were no wars and armed conflicts since the Second World War, in fact, the US has been engaged in a series of military affairs (Congressional Research Service, 2020). Such dissonance between the real actions and the information released in authoritative sources make people hesitate everything they hear and see in the news or in the President’s speeches.
On the other hand, however, the official armed conflict declaration can lead to a variety of severe consequences. Many politicians consider declaring a war irrelevant due to the fact that the notion has a strong effect on the world population, while military misunderstandings are not that terrifying to the broad audience (Dunlap, 2016). Hence, implicit military conflicts are created, first of all, to avoid the incitement to hatred. Thus, taking both aspects into consideration, it may be concluded that the international military conflicts, if unavoidable, should be declared as a full-scale war only as a result of considering all the possible implications.
Works Cited
Congressional Research Service. “Defense Primer: President’s Constitutional Authority with Regard to the Armed Forces.”. 2020.
Dunalp, Charles F. “Why Declarations of War Matter.”. 2016. Web.
The White House. “The Executive Branch.”. Web.