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• Colin L. Powell

  United States Army (Ret.)

   

   

  General Powell served as secretary of state from 2001 until 2005. Before becoming secretary of state, General Powell served as a key aide to the secretary of defense and as national security advisor to President Reagan. He also served 35 years in the United States Army, rising to the rank of four-star general and serving as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is the recipient of numerous U.S. military awards as well as two Presidential Medals of Freedom. Currently, General Powell is a strategic limited partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and is on the board of Revolution Health Care. He is the founder of the Colin Powell Policy Center at the City College of New York. He is based in Washington, DC.

  
  

  
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  2009

  June 25, 2009

  Politico: U.S. Must Deloy More Foreign Diplomacy Personnel

  Authors:	Henry A. Kissinger George Shultz James A. Baker Lawrence S. Eagleburger Warren Christopher Madeleine K. Albright, Principal, Albright Stonebridge Group LLC Colin L. Powell, United States Army (Ret.) Condoleezza Rice

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  Eight former Secretaries of State jointly argue that national security requires more sufficient personnel in this article on funding for development and diplomacy.

   

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  2004

  January/February 2004

  A Strategy of Partnerships

  Author:	Colin L. Powell, United States Army (Ret.)

  Foreign Affairs Article — Summary

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  January/February 2004

  A Strategy of Partnerships

  Author:	Colin L. Powell, United States Army (Ret.)

  Foreign Affairs Article — Summary

   

  1997

  October 31, 1997

  The NSC at 50: Past, Present, and Future

  Speakers:

  Robert C. McFarlane, Chairman and CEO, Global Energy Investors, LLC Colin L. Powell, Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Assistant to President Reagan for National Security Affairs Zbigniew Brzezinski, Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Assistant to President Carter for National Security Affairs Walt Rostow, Professor Emeritus of Political Economy, University of Texas at Austin Andrew J. Goodpaster, Retired; United States Army; Chairman, Atlantic Council of the United States

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  Leslie H. Gelb, President, Council on Foreign Relations

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  1992

  Winter 1992/93

  U.S. Forces: Challenges Ahead

  Author:	Colin L. Powell, United States Army (Ret.)

  Foreign Affairs Article — Summary

   

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