"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."
— Gulf War

January 1, 1970

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Colin Powell Remark made as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announcing the U.S. gulf war plan against Saddam Hussein's army. Pentagon press briefing (23 January 1991)