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...seemed clear that former Secretary of State James Baker was doing more in Europe last week than negotiating debt relief for Iraq. A more likely project was the continuation of negotiations recently begun by Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld to produce a grand bargain with the recalcitrants - France, Germany, Russia - that would involve increased military and financial participation by the allies in return for U.N. supervision of the transition to a new government. Baker, I am told, was furious over the Pentagon memo that limited reconstruction contracts in Iraq to countries that had been part of the "coalition...
...where Rumsfeld really jerked the Army's chain was in reversing the long-held faith that the U.S. must apply overwhelming power overseas--or none at all. That doctrine, named after Secretary of State Colin Powell, was one of the lessons taken away by the men who fought as young officers in Vietnam. When those lieutenants and captains ripened into colonels and generals, they made the all-or-nothing Army the only kind America would field. By the early 1990s, as the U.S. began to face peskier enemies overseas, the doctrine began to unravel. Discussing how to apply force...
...latter stages of the war in Vietnam marked a low point in the American services' fortunes. Opposition to the war at home isolated the armed forces, and the antiwar mood was transmitted to the theater of combat. A key group of Vietnam veterans, among them Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf and Tommy Franks, became reformers. They recognized that combat units had been drip-fed individual replacements, instead of being sent whole units, and the reserves had not been mobilized. As a result, all units had too many men who had only just arrived or alternatively were soon to leave...
RECOVERING. COLIN POWELL, 66, Secretary of State; after a two-hour operation to remove a cancerous prostate; in Washington. A State Department spokesman said doctors expect him to make a full recovery...
...seemed clear that former Secretary of State James Baker was doing more in Europe last week than negotiating debt relief for Iraq. A more likely project was the continuation of negotiations recently begun by Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld to produce a grand bargain with the recalcitrants--France, Germany, Russia--that would involve increased military and financial participation by the allies in return for U.N. supervision of the transition to a new government. Baker, I am told, was furious over the Pentagon memo that limited reconstruction contracts in Iraq to countries that had been part of the "coalition...