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Thoughts on the "war power"

A pending Supreme Court case deals with state sovereign immunity; specifically, do Congress' constitutional war powers permit it to allow states to be sued under the statutes governing re-employment of honorably discharged veterans?

Since I believe court-created sovereign immunity to be neither good law nor wise policy, on the one hand, and cannot see how a 1789 constitutional provision could override a 1795 constitutional amendment, on the other, I don't have a dog in this fight. But for those who do, here is an article pointing out that the Constitution divides military power (if not the power to declare war) among states and the federal government.