Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger confers with Army Maj. Gen. Colin Powell during testimony before the Senate Budget Committee on Capitol Hill, Feb. 8, 1985, in Washington, D.C. Powell worked ...

“My race is somebody’s else’s problem,” he recalled telling himself when he left home for the Army. “It’s not my problem.” Colin L. Powell, who helped guide the U.S. military to ...

Colin Powell died at 84 this week of coronavirus complications after fighting cancer. As a US Army general and statesman, he met some of the world’s most influential leaders. But when journalist ...

In the latter role, he oversaw the US invasion of Panama and later the US invasion of Kuwait to oust the Iraqi army in 1991. “General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman ...

Does it matter? n Jan. 22, 2001, Colin Powell assumed command of an army in tatters. That cold Monday morning, his first day on the job as secretary of State, the celebrated former general strode ...

Ten days before I boarded a plane to Afghanistan in January 2015, I wore my Army Dress Blues to my grandmother's funeral. The last time she saw me in my Dress Blues, I was graduating from West ...

“Colin Powell: clearly a conservative ... I was in the Navy, and he was in the Army, but I admired his trajectory,” Johnson said. “Suddenly, it wasn’t ridiculous to dream that I could ...

Colin Powell became a household name because of the four stars on his Army uniform and his iconic statements about Iraq. In the first Iraq war in 1991, he famously described what the U.S. would do ...

Colin Powell said he was "Very proud to call myself ... Powell served two tours in Vietnam: the first as an Army Captain, when he was an advisor with the 1st and 2nd Infantry Divisions from ...

Part of the Army Creed reads: I will always place the mission first. For former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and past Fort Myer resident Gen. Colin Powell, his recent missions involve not ...

The Army and other military branches report to the DOD. For example, one X user wrote (archived) on March 20, "Pete Hegseth removed Colin Powell's name from a list of notable Americans ...