Defence Council

Defence Council may refer to:

  • Croatian Defence Council, the main military formation of the Croats during the Bosnian War charged with achieving military objectives
  • Defence Council of the United Kingdom, the body legally entrusted with the defence of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories
  • Provisional National Defence Council, the Ghanaian government after the People's National Party's elected government was overthrown on the previous election

Famous quotes containing the words defence and/or council:

    “What cannot stand must fall; and the measure of our sincerity and therefore of the respect of men, is the amount of health and wealth we will hazard in the defence of our right. An old farmer, my neighbor across the fence, when I ask him if he is not going to town-meeting, says: “No, ‘t is no use balloting, for it will not stay; but what you do with the gun will stay so.””
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree
    With beards askew, their eyes dull and wild
    Twelve ragged men, the council of charity
    Wandering the face of the earth a fatherless child....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)