The Defence Minister of Serbia, Dragan Šutanovac, stated in a 2011 meeting in Luanda that Serbia would negotiate with the Angolan military authorities for the construction of a new military hospital in Angola.

* Peter MacKay, lawyer, Canadian Minister of National Defence

Chiang appointed a Muslim General, Bai Chongxi, as the Minister of National Defence of the Republic of China, which controlled the ROC military.

On 15 February 2008 Serbian Minister of Defence Dragan Sutanovac was pictured testing a Barnett crossbow during a public exercise of the Serbian army's Special Forces in Nis, 200 km south of capital Belgrade.

* that the Defence portfolio not be given to the Prime Minister

Queen Margrethe II is the de jure Commander-in-Chief per the Danish constitution, however according to the Danish Defense Law the Minister of Defence serves as the commander of the Danish Defence ( through the Chief of Defence and the Defence Command ) and the Danish Home Guard ( through the Home Guard Command ).

The Coordinating Minister of Internal and External Security accords the policies and actions that will be adopted by the following institutions as regards internal and external security: the Ministry of Government and Police, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defence, and the Secretariat General for the Public administration.

Thirdly, the president appointed the head of the military intelligence, Abdel Fatah El-Sisi, as Minister of Defence to replace Tantawi.

This is similar to the system in Germany, where article 65a of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany vests it with the Federal Minister of Defence.

On October 27, President Mirza swore in a twelve-member cabinet that included Army Commander General Ayub Khan as Defence Minister as well as chief martial law administrator of the country, along with three other senior military officers in ministerial positions.

Within the government, preparative discussions are conducted in the government committee of foreign and security policy ( ulko-ja turvallisuuspoliittinen ministerivaliokunta ), which includes the Prime Minister and at least the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Defence, and at most four other ministers as necessary.

The Minister of National Defence Art Eggleton advised Governor General Adrienne Clarkson to authorize more than 100 Canadian Forces members serving on military exchange programs in the United States and other countries to participate in U. S. operations in Afghanistan.

In practice, that role is ceremonial, with actual authority in the hands of the Defence Minister and the Chief of the Defence Force ( CDF ).

The then Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, and the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, were also in attendance, and Clark was accompanied by the official NZ Defence Force party, veterans of several past wars, and 10 New Zealand college students who won the New Zealand ' Prime Minister's Essay Competition ' with their work on Gallipoli.

Röhm lobbied Hitler to appoint him Minister of Defence, a position held by conservative General Werner von Blomberg.

In Germany, the Basic Law of the Federal Republic vests this authority in the Minister of Defence in normal peace-time ( article 65a ), and that command authority is transferred to the Federal Chancellor when a state of defence is invoked ( article 115b ): something which has never happened so far.

* Allen Fairhall ( LP ), Minister for Defence

After the end of his viceregal tenure, Alexander was sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and thereafter, in order to serve as the British Minister of Defence in the Cabinet of Winston Churchill, into the Imperial Privy Council.

Minister for Defence Sten Tolgfors resigned on March 29, 2012 as a result of his activity in the Saudi Affair.

Yassin suggested that the suicide bomber was fulfilling her " obligation " to make jihad, and Israel's Deputy Defence Minister responded by publicly declaring that Yassin was " marked for death.

George Scholarius responded with a Defence of Aristotle, which elicited Plethon's subsequent Reply.

Trenchard responded by bluntly stating that in order to be effective, the officer with such responsibility would need the military powers of a generalissimo and political power that would come from being Deputy Minister of Defence.

When the penitent Stephen Gosson had ( in 1579 ) published his Schoole of Abuse, Lodge responded with Defence of Poetry, Music and Stage Plays ( 1579 or 1580 ), which shows a certain restraint, though both forceful and learned.

Of the seven European companies who responded to the initial Request for Information ( RFI ) from the UK Ministry of Defence ( MoD ), either individually or as part of a team, five are now part of MBDA and the other two are major risk-sharing partners on the programme.

The 2003 Defence White Paper, titled Delivering Security in a Changing World, set out the future structure of the British military, and was preceded by the 1998 Strategic Defence Review ( SDR ) and the 2002 SDR New Chapter, which responded to the immediate challenges to security in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in 2001.

Lüttwitz, an organiser of Freikorps units in 1918-19 and a fervent monarchist, responded by calling on President Ebert and Defence Minister Noske to stop the disbandment.

The Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force and the Police responded by sealing off the area around the Red House.

Hillery, as Supreme Commander of the Defence Forces, recorded the threat in Barber's file and recorded that Barber had been acting on his instructions in refusing the call ).

The European Defence Community ( EDC ) was a plan proposed in 1950 by René Pleven, the French President of the Council ( name of Prime Ministers until 1958 ), in response to the American call for the rearmament of West Germany.

In 1986 he with two other MPs Simon Hughes MP and Michael Meadowcroft MP and the National League of Young Liberals and other parts of the party produced the booklet Across the Divide Liberal Values on Defence and Disarmament This was the rally call that defeated the party leadership in the debate over the issue of an independent nuclear deterrent.

The new installation was named the Sgt David L. Pitcher Building, in honour of a Canadian Forces Air Defence Technician who was killed in the crash of an E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System ( AWACS ) aircraft, call sign Yukla 27, at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, on 22 September 1995.

Lev Alburt and Eric Schiller call 2. d3 " insipid " and recommend 2 ... d5 ( or 3. Nd2 e5 with a reversed Philidor's Defence ) 3. e5 Nfd7 4. f4 ( 4. d4 c5 5. c3 Nc6 leaves Black a tempo up on the French Defence ) c5 5. Nf3 e6 6. g3 !?

The December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor spurred prominent British Columbians, including members of municipal government, local newspapers, and businesses to call for the internment of the ethnic Japanese living in Canada under the Defence of Canada Regulations.

* October 31-Tánaiste and Minister for Defence Brian Lenihan is dismissed from the government over the telephone call controversy.

According to the ABC Current Affairs program Four Corners the ( Australian ) Defence Housing Authority took out an apprehended violence order against him, claiming he made a threatening phone call following the unjustified cancellation of a contract Habib had with the organisation.

`` we the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America ''.

Within the expanded Ministry of Defence are the new Admiralty Board, Army Board and Air Force Board, each headed by the Secretary of State for Defence.

In addition to these troops Belarus was the area of deployment for units subordinated directly to the USSR Defence Ministry and chiefs of different Soviet Armed Forces services, namely the 103rd Guards Airborne Division, the 38th Guards Airborne Brigade, the 11th corps of the 2nd Separate Air Defence Army, the 26th Air Army and also units and formations of the Strategic Rocket Forces, Long Range Aviation, the Navy and special forces.

In 2010 the Ministry of Defence completed a thorough study of the defence policy and issued a White Book, or a White Paper on Defence, calling for a major overhaul of the structure of Defence Forces.

The National Defence Force is the state military organisation responsible for the defence of Burundi.

* B52 ( chess opening ), the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings code for a chess opening based on the Sicilian Defence

* On 14 October 2011 Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox resigned from the Cabinet after he " mistakenly allowed the distinction between personal interest and government activities to become blurred " over his friendship with Adam Werrity.

On 9 September the Head of the Reich Defence Council, Goring called for complete " employment " of living and fighting power of the national economy for the duration of the war.

The Secretary General of the Council is head of the General Secretariat, Uwe Corsepius since June 2011 ; previously the post holder was also the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, President of the European Defence Agency and the Western European Union.

CND's growing support in the 1980s provoked opposition from several sources, including Peace Through Nato, the British Atlantic Committee ( which received government funding ), Women and Families for Defence ( set up by conservative journalist Lady Olga Maitland to oppose the Greenham Common Peace Camp ), the Conservative Party's Campaign for Defence and Multilateral Disarmament, the Coalition for Peace through Security, the Foreign Affairs Research Institute, and The 61, a private sector intelligence agency.

The British government also took direct steps to counter the influence of CND, Secretary of State for Defence Michael Heseltine setting up Defence Secretariat 19 " to explain to the public the facts about the Government's policy on deterrence and multilateral disarmament ".

When Michael Heseltine became Secretary of State for Defence, Massiter prepared a report on CND for him.