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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Les Aspin’s sudden departure as secretary ... Mr. Aspin ignored concerns of then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Colin Powell and other military commanders. “It could have been ...

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 ...

As the first Black person to lead the State Department, Powell worked to restore national pride and reshape American troops post-Vietnam War ...

Defense Secretary Les Aspin said Wednesday he's asked eight ... the group was formed without consulting them and Gen. Colin Powell. Aspin said he wants his new panel to "take a fresh look at ...

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 ...

Les Aspin, a Wisconsin Democrat who spent 22 years in Congress, rising to chair the Armed Services Committee, and who left the House to become President Clinton's first defense secretary ...