re: Rand Paul introduces MILITARY HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS ACT OF 2017

I believe we are in agreement on the authority of the president being in charge of how the military mission is conducted in this he has wide latitude but he must still get congressional approval or he has overstepped his authority.
Let me expound on my interpretation and put in today's environment and see if we are in agreement. The president make use any means at his disposal to prosecute the war in Iraq or Afghanistan as long as congress continues authorizing it. He may not decide on his own, barring the exceptions in the war powers act decide to drop bombs anywhere else without asking permission from congress. I believe that both democrat and republican presidents have decided that they can do as they like as long as they meet the requirement of informing congress after the fact as they don't see that as asking for a declaration of war.