years Congress declared war, from the statutory limitations of the quasi-war against France, through the War of 1812 against the British, Algeria in 1815, the Mexican War (1846), the Spanish War (1898), and World War I, to the several formal declarations of all-out war in World War II...
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(1) Over the past 60 years, through a combination of executive initiative and congressional abdication, the United States has engaged in large scale offensive wars absent congressional war declarations, despite Congress's constitutional authority and requirement to formally declare the nation's wars. ...
but a "police action," a term policy-makers commonly used to describe the Korean War.She also said the Haiti situation was much like the invasion of Grenada under President Ronald Reagan and the invasion of Panama under President George Bush, for which there were also no declarations of war...