defence

صوتي

أمريكي /dɪˈfens/إنجليزي /dɪˈfens/

NOUNالدفاع, دفاع, دفاعها, دفاعا عن, دفاعية

At a meeting in 1993, dubbed the “last supper”, William Perry, then President Bill Clinton’s deputy defence secretary, told industry bosses that excess capacity was no longer appropriate and that consolidation was in order
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Lacking bellicose neighbours, armed insurgencies or much appetite to project power abroad, the defence minister, Raul Jungmann, recognises that the country’s armed forces “do not possess classic military attributes”
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Speaking at the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry in London, the Defence and Science Technology Laboratory (DSTL) witness, referred to only as MK26, said a sample the size of "a third of, to a sixth, of a grain of salt" could have been a fatal human dose.
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That China has no intention to abandon or exert real pressure on Russia was made clear again in April when General Li Shangfu, China’s new defence minister, visited Moscow on his first trip abroad in that position
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But, Mr Neill points out, some in the Western defence community are increasingly arguing that these strike groups are vulnerable, as they are effectively "sitting ducks" for any missile attacks.
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