Defence Council

Defence Council may refer to:

  • Croatian Defence Council, the main military formation of the Croats during the Bosnian War charged with achieving military objectives
  • Defence Council of the United Kingdom, the body legally entrusted with the defence of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories
  • Provisional National Defence Council, the Ghanaian government after the People's National Party's elected government was overthrown on the previous election

Famous quotes containing the words defence and/or council:

    “They aroused me to a determination to understand more fully the position of women, and the character of those men who talk so much of the need of our being “protected”Mremoving from us, meanwhile, what are often the very weapons of our defence [sic], occupations, and proper and encouraging remuneration.”
    —Harriot K. Hunt (1805–1875)

    “There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree
    With beards askew, their eyes dull and wild
    Twelve ragged men, the council of charity
    Wandering the face of the earth a fatherless child....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)