Which cabinet does the president go to before starting a war?

Question

department of defense or department of state?

i can only pick one

seriously, no long descriptions, no congress crap that i already know. either department of defense or department of state

STOP TELLING ME CONGRESS CRAP!!! DEPARTMENT OF STATE OR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE???????????

ok, J.J., i dont care how he starts a war, he still needs to go get some advice. i knw that they dnt use the cabinet as much anymore, but who shoudl he go to. JUST TELL ME WHICH ONE, IF YOU CANT< THEN DNT ANSWER!!!!

Answer 1

After World War II, Congress voluntarily limited its use of the power to declare war to issuing authorizations of force. The War Powers Resolution of 1973 (Pub.L. 93-148) limits the power of the President to wage war without the approval of the Congress. The United States of America has formally declared war against foreign nations five separate times.

Answer 2

The President got approval from the congress before the start of the Iraq war. The President's cabinet consists of the various department heads who work for the President. He seeks their advice, but it is not required. The State Department worked with the President to negotiate a diplomatic solution and to build the coalition of nations against Saddam and his regime. In the end the President directed the Defense Department to initiate the military action.

The answer is Defense Department. The question is worded very poorly.

Sadam started the war, Americans will finish it.

Calm down we are just trying to help. Chill Out.

Answer 3

The president doesn't go to a cabinet member to get a war started. The president approaches the Congress. In fact, congress is the body that has the power to declare war while the president's power is to conduct the war.

The Constitution provides the president to declare war in an event that calls for immediate action (i.e. the president doesn't need permission to go to war when the country is invaded.)
In such situations congress can not be reached.

During the time the constitution was written communication was very very very limited.

Answer 4

In Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution they gave Congress the power to declare war.

Declarations of war may seem to be relics of a bygone era—a time more deeply steeped in ritual, when ambassadors in frock coats delivered sealed communiqués to foreign courts. Yet a declaration of war has a great deal to recommend it today: it forces a deliberate, public conversation about the reasons for going to war, the costs, the risks, the likely gains, the strategies for achieving them—all followed by a formal vote.

Debates over war powers are nothing new. A recent book by the University of California at San Diego political scientist Peter Irons, War Powers, concludes that although the president has steadily accumulated de facto war powers, the Framers clearly—and correctly—intended to locate those powers in Congress.

But Iraq is only the latest in a long line of ill-considered and ill-planned American military adventures. Time and again in recent decades the United States has made military commitments after little real debate, with hazy goals and no appetite for the inevitable setbacks. Bill Clinton, having inherited a mission in Somalia to feed the starving, ended up hunting tribal leaders and trying to nation-build. Ronald Reagan dispatched the Marines to Lebanon saying stability there was a "vital interest," only to yank them out sixteen months later, soon after a deadly terrorist attack on the Marine barracks. John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson settled us slowly into a war intended to prevent another "domino" from falling to communism, but in a manner that tore the nation apart and ultimately led to defeat. Too often our leaders have entered wars with unclear and unfixed aims, tossing away American lives, power, and credibility before figuring out what they were doing and what could be done.

Answer 5

Once the congress gives him the option to go to war (they don't say go to war, they give him the option), he is the sole commander in chief. That congress gave Bush the option, twice (Afghanistan 2001/ Iraq 2003) should be a sign, that congress is a joke.
In 1989 America waged war under bush senior and Cheney as chief of the military, with the tiny defenseless nation of Panama, to hunt down a former CIA operative, Noriega, killing 5000 innocent civilians. After 4 weeks, Noriega walked out of a church and gave himself up, to end the blood sheet. That too is part of our history.
Bush doesn't take advice, he takes his orders from the NSA

Answer 6

The liquor cabinet.

But seriously, both. The defense department is the army, and the state department is the diplomats.

Answer 7

Defense to start dropping bombs

State to tell the rest of the world why is it good