The D Brief: New strikes under 2001 AUMF; AQ leader killed; Hypersonics success; Soldiers injured in ninja attack; And a bit more...
By Bradley Peniston and Jennifer Hlad
October 1, 2021
The D Brief
Afghanistan
2001 AUMF will cover new Afghanistan strikes, DOD says. Pentagon officials said Thursday that “over the horizon” strikes against terror groups in Afghanistan will be conducted under the war powers act Congress authorized just days after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, Defense One’s Tara Copp reported.
But some in Congress question whether the two-decade-old law actually authorizes such strikes, which the Biden administration has said will help the U.S. prevent terrorist attacks on American soil without the need for U.S. troops on the ground. In this week’s hearings, several lawmakers demanded details about how the strikes would be conducted.
“We want to see a plan, and we want to see it today,” Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, and U.S. Central Command Chief Gen. Frank McKenzie on Wednesday.
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