The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.... The Commander in Chief Clause assures that there can be no military force beyond the president’s control.

Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, who served under President-elect Donald Trump's first term, responded to Trump 2.0 ...

President Jimmy Carter, the nation's 39th chief executive and the first U.S. Naval Academy graduate to serve in the Oval ...

on Nov. 29, 2024. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) Under a section called the "Commander-in-chief clause," Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution says the president "shall have power to ...

The President shall be Commander in Chief...of the Militia of the several ... called forth by Congress under Article I, Section 8, Clause 15. Yet there remained the question of what the president ...

“As commander in chief, I will Kamala Harris picks up on the national security theme established earlier in the night by Sen. Mark Kelly, former CIA director Leon Panetta and others.