* 1895 – Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese super-centenarian ( d. 2009 )

** Tomoji Tanabe is born in Miyakonojo, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan.

* September 18 – Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian who would become the last living man born in 1895 ( d. 2009 )

Following the death of Tomoji Tanabe on 19 June 2009, Allingham became the oldest living man.

With the death of Tomoji Tanabe on 19 June 2009 he became the oldest living man in the world ; after Allingham's death, that title passed to Walter Breuning of Montana.

Guinness World Records confirmed that at age 113 years, 13 days, he became the oldest living man in the world, following the death of Japanese supercentenarian Tomoji Tanabe on 19 June 2009.

Mercado was four years older at the time than his successor as oldest living man, Tomoji Tanabe from Japan.

was the pen-name of Ishizuka Tomoji ( written in different kanji ( 石塚友次 )), a Japanese haiku poet and novelist active during the Showa period of Japan.

* Ishizuka, Tomoji.

The teachings also combine elements of traditional Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana Buddhism with teachings and practices initiated by the founders of Shinnyo-en, Shinjō Itō ( né Fumiaki Itō ; March 28, 1906 – July 19, 1989 ) who trained at Shingon, and his wife Tomoji Itō ( née Tomoji Uchida, May 9, 1912 – August 6, 1967 ), the first woman in the 1, 000-year history of Daigo-ji monastery in Kyoto to receive the rank of daisōjō () as a laywoman.

Shinnyo-en was established in 1936 by Shinjō Itō and his wife Tomoji Ito in the Tokyo suburb of Tachikawa.

In December 1935, Shinjō Itō and Tomoji Itō enshrined an image of Mahavairochana Achala ( believed to have been sculpted by the renowned Buddhist sculptor, Unkei ) and they began a 30-day period of winter austeritier from the beginning of the New Year in 1936.

Tomoji succeeded to reinō ( a spiritual ability, or faculty ) from her aunt on 4 February 1936.

From that time, Tomoji and Shinjō began a new life together entirely devoted to encouraging people's spiritual growth.

-- Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has asked Congress for authority and funds to build fallout shelters costing about 200 million dollars.

During World War 2, about 7.5 million persons were enrolled in courses organized under two special programs administered by state and local school authorities: ( 1 ) Vocational Education for National Defense, and ( 2 ) War Production Training.

For the Smith-Hughes, George-Barden, and National Defense Act of 1958, the cumulative total of Federal expenditures in 42 years was only about $740 million.

That month, Clinton implemented a Department of Defense directive known as " Don't Ask, Don't Tell ", which allowed gay men and women to serve in the armed services provided they kept their sexuality a secret, and forbade the military from inquiring about an individual's sexual orientation.

In 2006 four batteries ( divizions in Russian terminology ; about 6 systems each ) of S-300 anti-aircraft systems were acquired from Russia to reinforce the Joint CIS Air Defense System.

* Cold War Era Civil Defense Museum – Features much historical information about Civil Defense history, its equipment and methods, and many historical photographs and posters.

The Clinton Administration on December 21, 1993, issued Defense Directive 1304. 26, which directed that military applicants were not to be asked about their sexual orientation.

In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

During Labor Day weekend in 1973, a meeting of about 12 military officers at the Pentagon discussed the creation of a Defense Navigation Satellite System ( DNSS ).

Powell's speech came less than a month after a then-classified CIA report concluding that the information provided by al-Libi was unreliable and about a year after a Defense Intelligence Agency report concluded the same thing.

An article published in the November 5, 2005 New York Times quoted two paragraphs of a Defense Intelligence Agency report, declassified upon request by Senator Carl Levin, that expressed doubts about the results of al-Libi's interrogation in February 2002.

On 14 March 2006, the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Bringing Home the Goods, raiding a Jericho prison to capture PFLP general secretary, Ahmad Sa ' adat and five other prisoners charged with assassinating Israeli tourist minister Rehavam Zeevi who were about to be released.

Switzerland long maintained, proportionally, the second largest military force in the world, with about half the proportional amount of reserve forces of the Israeli Defense Forces, a militia of some 33 % of the total population.

The Non-Aligned Yugoslavia was concerned about an eventual aggression from any of the superpowers, especially by the Warsaw Pact after the Prague Spring, so the Territorial Defense Forces were formed as an integral part of the total war military doctrine called Total National Defense.

Defense counsel for Sun Myung Moon instead asserted use of the word in the jury selection process was necessary to identify the Unification Church and to question jurors about possible prejudice.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U. S. Army and U. S. Marine Corps will send about 24, 000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there.

Since then, the experimental population has grown and the recovery area expanded to include four national wildlife refuges, a Department of Defense bombing range, state-owned lands, and private lands, encompassing about.

Reagan significantly increased public expenditures, primarily the Department of Defense, which rose ( in constant 2000 dollars ) from $ 267. 1 billion in 1980 ( 4. 9 % of GDP and 22. 7 % of public expenditure ) to $ 393. 1 billion in 1988 ( 5. 8 % of GDP and 27. 3 % of public expenditure ); most of those years military spending was about 6 % of GDP, exceeding this number in 4 different years.

Today, the total number of troops available to the Swedish Army after 90 days of full mobilization is about two battalions ( 600 troops each ) and eight companies ( 120 troops each ), totaling 2, 160 soldiers and 37, 000 Home Guard / Defense.

This came about when President Eisenhower enacted a bill called the National Defense Education Act.

Ostensibly, this was because of improvement in the regime ’ s record, although former United States Assistant Secretary of Defense Noel Koch later stated, " No one had any doubts about Iraqis ' continued involvement in terrorism ...

* October 14 – Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the United States Army and United States Marines will send about 24, 000 troops back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours.

US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara failed to inform US President Lyndon B. Johnson that the U. S. naval task group commander in the Tonkin Gulf, Captain John J. Herrick, had changed his mind about the alleged North Vietnamese torpedo attack on U. S. warships he had reported earlier that day.

The main proposal was presented in a document entitled " Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba ( TS )", a top secret collection of draft memoranda written by the Department of Defense ( DoD ) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( JCS ).

* Westen & Mangiafico, The Criminal Defense of Duress: A Justification, Not an Excuse-And Why It Matters, ( 2003 ) Vol.

A description of the program can be found in the Missile Defense Agency Budget Item Justification document, dated February 2007.

* Sherwyn, David, Tracey, Bruce & Zev Eigen, " In Defense of Mandatory Arbitration of Employment Disputes: Saving the Baby, Tossing out the Bath Water, and Constructing a New Sink in the Process ", 2 U. Pa. J.

This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.

United States Department of Defense spokesmen used to routinely described the Khaldan training camp as an " al Qaeda training camp ", and used to routinely describe Al-Libi and Abu Zubaydah as senior members of Al Qaeda.

* 1982 – 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their " Operation Peace for the Galilee ", eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.

Phillpott said that Shaffer was " relying on my recollection 100 percent ", and the Defense Department Inspector General's report indicated that Philpott strongly supported the social network analysis techniques used in Able Danger, and might have exaggerated claims of identifying the hijackers.

The Diploids and Other Flights of Fancy ( Avon, 1962 ), her first short story collection, includes " The Diploids " ( aka " Six Fingers "), " Feedback ", " Pictures Don't Lie ", " Incommunicado ", " The Snow Ball Effect ", " Defense Mechanism " and " And Be Merry " ( aka " The Pyramid in the Desert ").

Following the Armistice, South Korea and the U. S. agreed to a " Mutual Defense Treaty ", under which an attack on either party in the Pacific area would summon a response from both.

Nicknamed the " Doomsday Defense ", they allowed just 1 touchdown in their last 6 games prior to the Super Bowl.

With Staubach and his team's " Doomsday Defense ", the Cowboys won the NFC East with a 12-2 regular season record.

As Holmgren, Favre, and the Packers continued to win, they were able to attract impact free agents like veteran defensive end Reggie White, nicknamed the " Minister of Defense ", who joined the team in 1993.

Another article described Sandinista neighbourhood " Defense Committees ", modeled on similar Cuban Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, which according to critics were used to unleash mobs on anyone who was labeled a counterrevolutionary.

He learns that the CIA ’ s most highly-placed agent, codenamed " CARDINAL ", is none other than Colonel Mikhail Semyonovich Filitov, the personal aide to the Soviet Minister of Defense and a national war hero.

Other estimates of Austro-Hungarian casualties are as follows: By Austrian Ministry of Defense in 1938: Military dead 1, 016, 200 By UK War Office in 1922: Dead 1, 200, 00 By US War Dept in 1924: 1, 200, 00 killed and died A study published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1940 estimated civilian 467, 000 deaths " attributable to war ", the primary cause being famine.

* In popular Warcraft III custom map " Defense of the Ancients ", Akasha is the name of a female hero with the ability to create waves of sound that damage multiple units.

Secretary of Defense is a statutory office, and the general provision in provides that the Secretary of Defense has " authority, direction and control over the Department of Defense ", and is further designated by the same statute as " the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense.

The Secretary of the Navy is responsible for, and has statutory authority () to " conduct all the affairs of the Department of the Navy ", i. e. as its chief executive officer, subject to the limits of the law, and the directions of the President and the Secretary of Defense.

For combat each character has an Offensive Bonus ( OB ), which takes into account one's natural physical adeptness, weapon skill, and other factors, and a Defensive Bonus ( DB ), which takes into account natural agility, the use of shields and " Adrenal Defense ", the ability of martial artists to avoid blows seemingly without effort.