The Presidency is a strange beast, in the original form a "president" other than by his legislative semi-veto, appointment powers and responsibility to protect, speak up for and defend the Constitution as it is, in military matters he was strictly the Top Grunt (executor) of Congress.
Presidents had no added enumerated powers, save to stave off invasion or insurrection, and none others of any sort existed until foreign entanglements created and established such 'instant crisis power'. The obligations of Treaties entered into by fools in Congress engineered and imposed a massive, cumulative erosion of Congressional war powers, eventually creating the need for an otherwise unconstitutional permanent, national standing land army, passing both the authority for it's command and these accumulated, eroded obligations to a new and ever expanding 'Military Treaty' Presidency.
The framers, largely due to the constraints of it's slow to build infrastructure only ever envisioned and provided for a 'permanent' Navy to defend the Union from invasion. A federal land army, the greatest fascist and false patriotic threat and danger to States, Republican Liberty and the Union itself, were only ever to be raised for specific cause and funded by Congress for a period never longer than 2 years. Only states had the right to have and maintain standing militias, which a Congress or President could call up to deal with foreign entanglements, insurrection, invasion, or a declared war.
More than any other factor however Truman's surrender to Churchill and Britain's phony 'democratic' Anglican Fascist Imperial tyranny at Potsdam forever destroyed the American Republic. The death of the American republic lies not in treaties, but in the unconstitutional creation of a Presidential 'finding-crime' unconstitutionally passed by congress in outright abdication of it's constitutional duties in 1948. Senator Lyndon Johnson's totally unconstitutional 1948 blank check of Marquee - note especially 413b a 5Under strict and specific constitutional provision (Art.1 Sec.8 Par.11) the Letter of Marque (a criminal license to murder, rob, steal or in any way break international or foreign laws) could heretofore have only been issued by an open and full and specific individual debate and vote by the entire Congress, only then could a President employ civilian, non-military privateers or mercenaries to commit crimes outside of the US on behalf of the Republic.
The Anglican Tory Fascist tribal mafia warlord Elizabeth 1 had granted such Letters of Marque to Francis Drake and his mob to rape rob and pillage the Spanish Main. Please be aware that Fascist Tory Anglicanism is the 'religion' which is ashamed of it's own name in the United States - it poses as something called the Episcopal 'religion' in this country. America owes it's creation to the endless persecution, discrimination and theocratic electoral tyranny of this hateful established Imperial British Fascist cult.
Abraham Lincoln at the height of the Civil War had also obtained and issued such licenses to pirates employed to attack and destroy Confederate supply ships. And now we come to the Princeton "Skull and Bones" Mafia...
After WWII, conservative religious-socialist fascists much like their sole surviving leader, the racist, anti-semitic bigot Winston Churchill, in fact Mussolini's most outspoken pre war friend and admirer, were eager to resume the unfinished business of Hitler against the 'godless' Imperial Marxist Fascist tyranny of Stalins horrific dogmatic counter-religious dictatorship cult. They reasoned that they too could employ Hitlers classic Conservative Christian Fascist appeals to electorally establish a broad based de facto Neo-Christian religious fascist tyranny over 'democratic' America to subvert America's secular Constitution of Liberty and thus achieve the mercantile and military world domination that had evaded the Axis powers, by exploiting and growing America's vast military industrial infrastructure through unreasoning fear and secret noble elite disinformation and covert corruption.
While Herbert Hoover had abolished and 'forever disavowed' the contingency of criminal Letters of Marque under the treaties that had served to establish the League of Nations, forbidding America, by Congressional agreement, ever to enter into criminal licensing, that prohibition was and is still superseded locally by the entrenched powers accorded solely to the Congress by the Constitution.
The noble elites of America, perverted by MI6 financial and media subversion, included the Dulles, Brown Bros Harriman, Johnson McCarthy, Bushes (US Senator nearly convicted of aiding the Nazi's for his Silesian Steel treachery and CIA mafia sons) promptly set about the Episcopal Fascist Skull and Bones agenda of promoting Christian Fascism by decrying and persecuting "Godless Communism" (rather than the ruthless tyrant Stalin).
Most notably a Senator named Lyndon Johnson, who after the complete and total failure of the NDA of 1947 to establish a a fascist criminal American version of the fascist criminal NKVD and MI6 Mafias managed to write the legal fiction of a 'finding crime' into an obscure, unconstitutional 1948 amendment to US law creating the blank check of Marque CIA and NSA civilian Mafias under the command and control a Whitehouse Mafia Godfather.
The military heir to the pre WWII OSS, now known as the DIA is the only legitimately constitutional intelligence agency in America, the others are all totally criminal, illegal and unconstitutional. The secrecy surrounding the elite noble 'House of Lords' Gang of 8 Super Elite hand picked CIA Mafia controlled fascist Senators and Congressmen and the secrecy surrounding the CIA Mafia's private secret monopoly on disinformation, endless foreign and domestic criminal activities and it's horrific and frighful infiltration by military industrial religious fascists and it's own infiltration of all major US news media is an Orwellian tragedy of biblical proportions.
These radical Christian Fascists pretend 'alliance' with radical Jewish Fascists and the phony pretense of their bloodthirsty 'opposition' to radical Muslim Fascists extends no further than a theocratic pissing match over whose socialist religious fascist dogma will turn out to be true after their planned Second Holocaust, to be accomplished by the Israel-destroying Armageddon Battle they are maliciously and deliberately engineering, to bring back their imaginary Neo-Christ.
Sad to say it, you stupid, ignorant and criminally obscene heretical 'Christian' Fascist morons, but Christ was a Rabbi :-)