Colin Powell American power and intervention from Vietnam to Iraq /

• Main Author: O'Sullivan, Christopher D.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009.
• Series: Biographies in American foreign policy.
• Subjects: Powell, Colin L.; United States. > Army > Biography.; United States. > Department of State > Biography.; Generals > Biography. > United States; African American generals > Biography.; Statesmen > Biography. > United States; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > International. > Government; POLITICAL SCIENCE > General. > International Relations; Electronic books.
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Few figures in the past quarter-century have played a more significant role in American foreign policy than Colin Powell. He wielded power at the highest levels of the most important foreign policy bureaucracies: the Pentagon, the White House, the joint chiefs, and the state department. As national...

Table of Contents:

• The education of a soldier, 1937-1980
• From the Pentagon to the White House, 1980-1987
• National Security Adviser at the end of the Cold War, 1987-1989
• Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, 1989-1993
• The military and diplomacy after the Cold War
• Secretary of State
• Powell, Iraq, and the "fog of war"
• Conclusion.