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It seems to me that if we are going to go with that approach then we would need to start actually declaring wars again.

We never stopped declaring war; declarations of war don't require particular magic words; the Afghanistan and Iraq AUMFs, for instance, were each valid conditional (and, in the former case, broadly open-ended) declarations of war.

When in the last 30 years did the US Congress declare an act of war?

> When in the last 30 years did the US Congress declare an act of war?

The grandparent post is a single sentence and identifies two instances that answer that question (they aren't a full answer because there are more examples in that timeframe.)

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