Defense (AmE) or defence (BrE, CanE and AuE) (see American and British English spelling differences for -ce/-se) may refer to:
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... The former Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Dr ... Stephen Cambone encouraged in part by the Defense Science Board reports on Strategic Communication and Transition to and From Hostilities, created the Defense Open Source Program (DOSP) ... The current Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence is assigned executive agency for this program to the Defense Intelligence Agency ...
... Innovative defenses (the invention of which is sometimes called creative lawyering) are relatively new and untried defenses for having committed a criminal act ... Such defenses include the abuse defense Battered woman defence premenstrual stress syndrome the biological defense (the "Twinkie Defense") "Black rage" urban survival syndrome ... Parodies of innovative defenses are sometimes seen in entertainment, for example the Chewbacca Defense ...
... He set about raising local militias to aid in the defense of Montreal and Quebec City, which met with only limited success ... one hundred Mohawk to assist in its defense ... He himself oversaw the defense of Montreal, leading only 150 regulars, since he relied on Fort St ...
... As discussed below, targets have various takeover defenses available, and several types of defense have been called "poison pills" because they harm not only the ... Currently, the most common type of takeover defense is a shareholder rights plan ... of directors, however, a shareholder rights plan can be a defense ...
... National ballistic missile defense systems ... Increased defense cooperation with Israel ... defense relationships with Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and other Persian Gulf nations ...
Famous quotes containing the word defense:
“For he is the cleanest in the use of his forepaws of any quadruped.
For the dexterity of his defense is an instance of the love of God
to him exceedingly.”
—Christopher Smart (1722–1771)
“He said, truly, that the reason why such greatly superior numbers quailed before him was, as one of his prisoners confessed, because they lacked a cause,—a kind of armor which he and his party never lacked. When the time came, few men were found willing to lay down their lives in defense of what they knew to be wrong; they did not like that this should be their last act in this world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The aims of life are the best defense against death.”
—Primo Levi (1919–1987)