General Colin Powell

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 January 1991.

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Photo of Mr John Major Mr John Major , Huntingdon 12:00, 17 January 1991

I would certainly be most happy to do that. When I was able to visit Dhahran and some of the military establishments a week or so ago, it was astonishing to see the way in which the sheer logistics of obtaining such a dramatic armada of weaponry, in terms of both land and air forces, had been achieved. It has been a remarkable logistical operation.