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Colin Powell

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Colin Powell

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Also known as Colin L. Powell

American general and diplomat (1937–2021)

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Colin Powell was an American military leader and diplomat who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf War and later as Secretary of State under President George W. Bush. He is remembered as a prominent African American figure in U.S. government and for his influential role in shaping American foreign policy and military strategy during key moments in late 20th and early 21st century history.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1937
Died
2021
Works
40

Top works

  • U. S. Defense Policy
  • U.S. foreign policy in a time of transition
  • Soldier's Way
  • Pearson Literature--California--Reading and Language
  • American foreign policy

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Acting · New York City, New York, USA

Colin Luther Powell was an American politician, statesman, diplomat, and United States Army officer who served as the 65th United States secretary of state from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African-American secretary of state.

Known for

  • Els 11 del Raval — Self (archive footage)2026
  • America at War — Self (archive footage)2025
  • Orwell: 2+2=5 — Self (archive footage)2025
  • Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? — Self2024
  • The Corridors of Power — Self2022
  • Playing Frisbee in North Korea — Self - Voice; archival2021
  • The Automat — Self2021
  • 9/11: Inside the President's War Room — Self2021
  • Fuck Coin — Self2021
  • Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror — Self (archive footage)2021

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Brazil
Active from
1937-08-06
Active to
2000-09-26
bossa novajazzlatinlatin jazzsamba-jazz

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
256
Total plays
540

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields

    · 1983 · cited 31,554x

  2. Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012

    · 2014 · cited 21,636x

  3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,908x

  4. RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome

    · 2011 · cited 19,977x

  5. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,798x

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Quotes

  • “Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.”
  • “The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.”
  • “Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war [Vietnam], vowed that when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in halfhearted warfare for half-baked reasons that the American people could not understand.”
  • “The sanctions exist — not for the purpose of hurting the Iraqi people, but for the purpose of keeping in check Saddam Hussein's ambitions toward developing weapons of mass destruction ... And frankly they have worked. He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors. So in effect, our policies have strengthened the security of the neighbors of Iraq.”
  • “What the hell, what are these guys thinking about? Can't you get these guys back in the box?”
  • “Capital is a coward. It flees from corruption and bad policies, conflict and unpredictability. It shuns ignorance, disease and illiteracy. Capital goes where it is welcomed and where investors can be confident of a return on the resources they have put at risk. It goes to countries where women can work, children can read, and entrepreneurs can dream.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Colin Luther Powell (/ˈkoʊlɪn ˈpaʊəl/ KOH-lin POW-əl; (1937-04-05)April 5, 1937 – (2021-10-18)October 18, 2021) was an American Army general, diplomat, and statesman who was the 65th United States secretary of state from 2001 to 2005, being the first Black American to hold the office, and was the highest-ranking Black American in the federal executive branch in American history (along with his successor Condoleezza Rice) until the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008. Initially politically independent, Powell joined the Republican Party in 1995. He was the 15th national security advisor from 1987 to 1989, and the 12th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993.

Powell was born in New York City in 1937 to parents who immigrated from Jamaica. He was raised in the South Bronx and educated in the New York City public schools, earning a bachelor's degree in geology from the City College of New York. He joined the Reserve Officers' Training Corps while at City College and was commissioned as a second lieutenant on graduating in 1958. He was a professional soldier for 35 years, holding many command and staff positions and rising to the rank of four-star general. He was commander of the U.S. Army Forces Command in 1989.

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