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:

    “Ignorance, forgetfulness, or contempt of the rights of man are the only causes of public misfortunes and of the corruption of governments.”
    —French National Assembly. Declaration of the Rights of Man (drafted and discussed Aug. 1789, published Sept. 1791)

    “Of all my Russian books, The Defense contains and diffuses the greatest “warmth”Mwhich may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract chess is supposed to be.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)