Some people alleged U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth oversaw the removal of Powell's biography from the cemetery's ...

This comes as the Arlington National Cemetery has reportedly removed several web pages that celebrated Black and women ...

For instance, in 1990 during the lead-up to the Gulf War, Dick Cheney, then the U.S. secretary of defense, asked Colin Powell, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to look into how many tactical ...

Huddled inside the Al Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad with his colleagues, CNN’s Bernard Shaw uttered a sentence that crackled over the airwaves to reach American televisions and change the world and cable ...

The highest-ranking military officer in the country, the chairman has no direct command authority. His role is as a presidential adviser rather than a decision-maker.

In the buildup to the Gulf War, the Air Force chief of staff publicly bragged about the superior effectiveness of air power. Army Gen. Colin Powell, the chairman at the time, responded by advising ...

A historical note: In 1990, then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney inserted Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell into the chain of command to keep a tighter rein on the Gulf War commander, Gen.