Biography of Colin Powell

The secret of the flight from London to Kuwait: Spy Mission or a combination of circumstances? Returning from Vietnam, Powell received a master's degree in a business administration at Georgetown University in Washington, and then achieved a prestigious scholarship of the White House under President Richard Nixon. Having served for some time in South Korea, Powell moved to the Pentagon.

Now they looked at him as a person who is provided with a brilliant career. The author of the photo, Getty Images signature for the photo, Colin Powell at a Pentagon briefing on the eve of the invasion of Iraq in the year in the year Powell became an adviser to national security. In m, when George Bush Sr. took office, Powell was appointed chairman of the United Committee of Chiefs of Staff - this is the highest military position in the US Department of Defense.

In his 52 years, he became the youngest officer who ever held this post - and the first African American. He immediately ran into a crisis when the United States invaded Panama in December, overthrowing the dictator General Noriag. The invasion was condemned by the United Nations. The author of the photo, Getty Images signature for the photo, Minister of Defense Dick Cheney on the left holds the ceremony of Powell’s entry as chairman of the United Committee of Chiefs of Staff in the year.

The Bible is held by the wife of Powell Alma. During the war in the Persian Gulf of the year, a strategy was implemented, called the "Doctrine Powell". In fact, Powell believed that the United States should resort to military force only after all diplomatic, political or economic funds have been exhausted. However, after the start of hostilities, it is necessary to expand the maximum forces necessary for quick and complete victory with the minimum of US loss.

Of great importance was attached to public support. In many ways, this opinion was based on the belief that the United States would no longer participate in long and fruitless conflicts, as in Vietnam. In the year, under his direct leadership, the troops of the head of the United States, the International Coalition, defeated the army of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and liberated Kuwait seized by him.

Initially, Powell opposed the use of force in the Persian Gulf, contrary to the desire of the then Minister of Defense Dick Cheney. However, the operations "Storm in the desert" and "The Brill of the Desert" were crowned with success, and the name Powell became known to a wide international audience. Powell firmly believed that only a threat to the interests of the United States justifies the use of military force.

After Iraq, Powell remained the chairman of the United Committee of the Chiefs of Staff in the first months of Clinton’s new presidency, but it was difficult for him to work with a more liberal administration. He left the army in the year and began working on his autobiography, she headed the list of bestsellers of the New York Times, as well as charity.

The author of the photo, Getty images signature for the photo, General Colin Powell and Vice President Dick Cheney with President George Bush in November, having freed himself from his military duties, he began to engage in politics. Powell had supporters in both parties, and he was read to candidates for vice presidents from both the Democrats and from the Republicans.

As a result, in the year, Powell stopped at the Republicans. There was talk that he would oppose Bill Clinton in the presidential election of the year, but Powell decided that he was not so interesting to a political career. In the administration of President George Bush Jr., Colin Powell held the post of public secretary. As a politician, he had a reputation as a moderate Republican and pragmatist.

However, subsequently, Powell broke with his party to support Barack Obama in the year, and became a trusted military adviser to a number of leading American politicians. The second invasion of Iraq, however, many Colin Powell will be remembered precisely as a politician who has achieved world support for the war in Iraq. His reputation for an honest person, of course, helped to convince the organization of the United Nations of the need for war when he spoke to the Security Council in the year.

According to him, such an amount of substance containing a anthrax is enough to hit several hundred people. Only 18 months later, after the overthrow of Saddam, Hussein Powell admitted that the intelligence data indicating that the Iraqi dictator had weapons of mass destruction almost certainly turned out to be incorrect. Soon after, he announced his resignation from the post of Secretary of State.

Later, Powell admitted that this performance in the Security Council became a serious spot on his biography. Colin Powell was sincerely convinced that the coalition is preferable to confrontation.

His rejection of the strategy of unilateral intervention allowed the United States to create a worldwide alliance in the war against terrorism.