In states where the government is divided into ministries, the Ministry of Defence (or Ministry of Defense) may refer to that part of the government responsible for matters of defence, usually including all branches of the military and is usually controlled by a Defence minister or minister of defence.
- Ministry of Defence (Afghanistan)
- Ministry of Defence (Albania)
- Ministry of Defense (Argentina)
- Ministry of Defence (Armenia)
- Ministry of Defense (Azerbaijan)
- Ministry of Defence (Belarus)
- Ministry of Defence (Belgium)
- Ministry of Defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Ministry of Defence (Brazil)
- Ministry of Defence (Bulgaria)
- Ministry of National Defence, Cambodia
- Ministry of National Defense (Chile)
- Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of China
- Ministry of National Defense (Republic of China)
- Ministry of National Defence (Colombia)
- Ministry of Defence (Croatia)
- Ministry of Defence (Czech Republic)
- Ministry of Defence (Denmark)
- Ministry of National Defence (Ecuador)
- Ministry of Defence (Estonia)
- Ministry of Defense (Ethiopia)
- Ministry of Defence (Finland)
- Ministry of Defence (France)
- Ministry of National Defence (Greece)
- Ministry of National Defence (East Germany)
- Federal Ministry of Defence (Germany)
- Ministry of Defence (Guatemala)
- Ministry of Defence (India)
- Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (Iran)
- Ministry of Defence (Iraq)
- Ministry of Defense (Israel)
- Ministry of Defence (Italy)
- Ministry of Defense (Japan)
- Ministry of Defence (Latvia)
- Ministry of National Defense (Lebanon)
- Ministry of National Defense (Liberia)
- Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Lithuania
- Ministry of Defence (Montenegro)
- Minister of Defence (Namibia)
- Ministry of Defence (Netherlands)
- Ministry of Defence (New Zealand)
- Ministry of Defence (Nigeria)
- Ministry of Defence (Norway)
- Ministry of Defence (Pakistan)
- Ministry of Defence (Peru)
- Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Poland
- Ministry of National Defence (Portugal)
- Ministry of Defence (Romania)
- Ministry of Defence (Russia)
- Ministry of Defence and Aviation (Saudi Arabia)
- Ministry of Defence (Serbia)
- Ministry of Defence (Slovenia)
- Ministry of Defence (Singapore)
- Ministry of Defence (Sri Lanka)
- Ministry of Defence (Somalia)
- Ministry of National Defense (Republic of Korea)
- Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union
- Ministry of Defence (Spain)
- Ministry of Defence (Sweden)
- Ministry of Defence (Syria)
- Ministry of National Defence (Turkey)
- Ministry of Defence (Thailand)
- Ministry of Defence (Ukraine)
- Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), since 1964
- Ministry of Defence (1947–1964), previous arrangement in the UK
- Ministry of Defence (Vietnam)
- Yugoslav Ministry of Defence
- Ministry of Defence (Zimbabwe)
Famous quotes containing the words ministry of, ministry and/or defence:
“The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State’s ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.”
—Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)
“the eave-drops fall
Heard only in the trances of the blast,
Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“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)