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:

    “Behold now this vast city; a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and hands there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “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)