[Wasanother]

The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787;

"the President is empowered to repel sudden attacks without awaiting congressional action and to make clear that the conduct of war is vested exclusively in the President."
Congress declares a war, the President executes the war and the Judiciary has no role in a war. The reason for giving exclusive authority to the President for the conduct of war was to prevent 500+ bureaucrats from micromanaging the war.

[garbanzo]

This isn't a conventional war - there is no army to defeat, no enemy capital to overrun. Secondly, the Framers did not give the President dictatorial powers - only the power over the use of the military in conduct of the war as is explictly stated in the Constitution. And the framers again were people who didn't even want a standing army. He has no authority to spy on private citizens contrary to judicial oversight. He cannot write laws without Congress. He can, with the consent of Congress, suspend habeus corpus.

[FairOpinion]

"The reason for giving exclusive authority to the President for the conduct of war was to prevent 500+ bureaucrats from micromanaging the war."


Exactly. Not to mention, that the enemy can destroy us at his leisure, while the bureaucrats are arguing the nuances.