[Mariner]

"I really hope the SCOTUS slaps him down on this. Forget the War Powers Act, this is purely a Constitutional issue. Congress, and only Congress can authorize engaging in war. "

Obama is doing things no differently than nearly every President since Andrew Jackson.

That somb!tch.

[Hoodat]

Obama is doing things no differently than nearly every President since Andrew Jackson.

Remind me again the last President to go to war for three months without getting Congressional approval?

[Mariner]

"Today, 50 years later, the IAF has no indigenously built aircraft of any worth"

These suckers are hard to build. Not just anybody can do it.

Why not buy a BUNCH of good airframes and engines from somebody...and put your own and best of class avionics and weapons systems aboard?

Thing is, you have to dial in on a basic configuration at SOME point and India doesn't seem to have found their groove yet.

If you want to be a power, you have to be able to put at least 2,000 fighters in the air and have a substantial number survive.