Colin Luther Powell was born on April 5 ... when Powell was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During the second Gulf War, Powell warned the second President Bush about the risks of invading ...

Colin Powell — a former U.S. military general ... Under the first President Bush, Powell played a key role in shaping the 1990-91 Gulf War in response to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s ...

Eric Reichbaum/AP, FILE Peggy Cifrino, Colin Powell's longtime spokesperson ... the 1989 invasion of Panama, the 1991 Gulf War, the 1992-93 engagement in Somalia and crisis in Bosnia, and the ...

Colin Powell, who served as secretary of state during the presidency of George W. Bush and led the first Gulf War as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, has died at age 84 of complications from COVID-19 ...

Colin Powell’s great misfortune was to serve as ... At the beginning of the Second Gulf War, he famously cited the Pottery Barn Rule, “You break it, you own it.” It was prophetic advice ...

Colin Powell, who helped guide the U.S. military to victory in the 1991 Persian Gulf War as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, then struggled a decade later over the U.S. invasion of Iraq as a ...

The first diary entry in which former President Ronald Reagan mentioned General Colin Powell ... for the first Gulf War while offering memorable sound bites in a can-do manner. Powell’s wisdom ...

In 1991, Dick Cheney and Colin Powell were riding high on their Persian Gulf War triumph. More than four million New Yorkers poured into the streets to cheer the ticker-tape parade they led up ...

Condoleezza Rice: Colin Powell’s greatest legacy is in the people ... Yet successful military operations in the same period — the Gulf War, the 1989 invasion of Panama — benefited from ...

"Colin Powell embodied expertise ... lauded Powell's leadership in the Gulf War in 1991, during the presidency of George H.W. Bush. “I'm deeply saddened to learn that America has lost a ...

Colin Powell, who was the nation’s top diplomat ... devising much of the strategy for the first Gulf War, which pushed Iraq’s invading army out of Kuwait, and explaining the strategy at ...

Trailblazing US politician Colin Powell has died of complications from ... of the joint chiefs of staff during the first Persian Gulf War. For much of the 1990s and 2000s, he was one of the ...