Usually means: Authority to deploy military force.
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  1. war powers: Merriam-Webster
  2. war powers: Vocabulary.com
  3. war powers: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. war powers: Dictionary.com

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  1. war powers: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See war_power as well.)

Definitions from WordNet (war power)

noun:  an extraordinary power exercised (usually by the executive branch) in the prosecution of a war and involving an extension of the powers that the government normally has in peacetime
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