WASHINGTON — Gen. Colin. L. Powell, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has told Defense Secretary Les Aspin that he wants to leave office two or three months before the end of his term ...

Defense Secretary Les Aspin put U.S. military forces in the ... recent military "roles and missions" recommendations by Gen. Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Les Aspin Jr. as defense secretary ... using U.S. troops in regional conflicts — a policy opposed by Gen. Colin Powell, then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In September, Aspin turned ...

Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ... Working closely with Defense Secretaries Caspar Weinberger, Dick Cheney and Les Aspin, Powell helped institutionalize the principle that ...

Colin Powell didn't really want to travel to ... In the recriminations that followed, Secretary of Defense Les Aspin was forced to resign. He was blamed for vetoing a request from the ground ...

One day in 1997, Colin Powell visited his old stomping grounds ... At the time, Clinton’s Defense Secretary Les Aspin took the blame. Still, Aspin approved the mission only after Powell called ...

Les Aspin issued one of his famous press releases ... will collide with the assumptions and assessments of Gen. Colin L. Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the individual services ...

Colin L. Powell, who in four decades of public life ... A Senate Armed Services Committee inquiry blamed Mr. Powell and Les Aspin, the defense secretary at the time, for leaving Army Rangers ...

Colin L. Powell, who helped guide the U.S. military ... Powell and Defense Secretary Les Aspin, finding that they had left American forces with insufficient protection by failing to send the ...