Military and Government
- Chief of Defence Intelligence, head of the UK Defence Intelligence Staff
- Custodial Detention Index, list of U.S. residents compiled by FBI during 1939-1941, later used for Japanese American internment
- Cote d'Ivoire, once known as Ivory Coast, country in West Africa
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“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people in general with their vague and changing aspirations for equality, for justice, for some kind of gentler brotherhood and peace, which has kept that balance of forces we call our system of government in equilibrium.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)