Beck: "During the Bush and Obama adminstrations, the AUMF [Authorization for Use of Military Force] was invoked thirty-seven times to launch military operations overseas"
Afghanistan (2001)
opening of Guantanmo Bay
military training in the Philippines, Georgia, and Yemen (2002)
deployment to Djibouti (2003)
Iraq (2004)
unspecified "deployments" (2006)
detention of fighters in Afghanistan (2011)
military action in Yemen (2012)
capture of one al-Qaeda member in Libya (2013)
airstrikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, against Khorasan in Syria, one strike in Somalia (2014)
operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey (2015)
Beck 375: "Without the AUMF, Congress would have been obligated to debate and vote on these operations, making decisions for which they would have to answer to their constituents very two years. But Congress didn't want to have those conversations and cast those votes."