Defence Forces (or Defense Forces) is the title of the armed forces of certain countries. It could mean:
- Australian Defence Force
- Barbados Defence Force
- Belize Defence Force
- Botswana Defence Force
- Eritrean Defence Forces
- Estonian Defence Forces
- Ethiopian National Defense Force
- Finnish Defence Forces
- Guyana Defence Force
- Irish Defence Forces
- Israel Defense Forces
- Jamaica Defence Force
- Japan Self-Defense Forces
- Lesotho Defence Force
- Malawian Defence Force
- Namibia Defence Force
- New Zealand Defence Force
- Royal Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force
- Royal Bahamas Defence Force
- Rwanda Defence Force
- Saint Kitts and Nevis Defence Force
- South African National Defence Force
- Tanzania People's Defence Force
- Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force
- Umbutfo Swaziland Defence Force
- Uganda People's Defence Force
- Zambian Defence Force
- State defense forces - defense forces of individual US states.
A number of football clubs related to defence forces are also named such as:
- Defence Force F.C., of Trinidad and Tobago
- Barbados Defence Force SC
- Belize Defence Force FC
- Botswana Defence Force XI
- Guyana Defence Force FC
Famous quotes containing the words defence and/or forces:
“Education must have two foundations—morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defence for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)
“There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)