National Defense

National defense may refer to:

  • National security, a nation's use of military, economic and political power to maintain survival
  • National missile defense, a military strategy to shield a country from missiles
  • National Defense Service Medal, a decoration of the U.S. military
  • National Defense Reserve Fleet, a reserve of U.S. merchant ships
  • National Defense University in Washington, D.C.
  • National Defense Medical College in Japan
  • National Defense Medical Center in Taiwan
  • National Defense College of the Philippines
  • National Defense Research Committee in the U.S. in the 1940s
  • National Defense Education Act
  • Government of National Defense in Africa in the 1870s

Famous quotes containing the words national and/or defense:

    “All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
    —Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

    “The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people’s identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.”
    —Václav Havel (b. 1936)