Military
- Decoration for Meritorious Services, an honour conferred by the apartheid-era Government of the Republic of South Africa, usually upon those appointed as State President of South Africa
- Defence Medical Services, an umbrella organisation within the Ministry of Defence in the United Kingdom, which organises all medical, dental and nursing services within the British Armed Forces
- Defence Maritime Services
- Defense Message System, a deployment of secure electronic mail and directory services in the United States Department of Defense
- Destacamentos de Mergulhadores Sapadores, Portuguese combat divers unit
- Destroyer minesweeper, a former type of ship in the United States Navy
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“In all sincerity, we offer to the loved ones of all innocent victims over the past 25 years, abject and true remorse. No words of ours will compensate for the intolerable suffering they have undergone during the conflict.”
—Combined Loyalist Military Command. New York Times, p. A12 (October 14, l994)
“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“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)