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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“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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