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He was the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Prime Minister and the Secretary of Defence Research and Development Organisation from July 1992 to December 1999.

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The first female to hold the rank of rear admiral within the Royal Australian Navy was Rear Admiral Robyn Walker, AM, RAN as the Surgeon ‑ General for the Australian Defence Force who was appointed on 16 December 2011.

Between 22 September 1916 and 2 December 1918, the port and town of Newhaven were designated a ' Special Military Area ' under the ' Defence of the Realm Regulations ', and the Harbour station was closed to the public.

He undertook the office of Prime Minister and acting Minister of Defence on 15 December 1957, remaining until 2 March 1958.

In December 1935 Trenchard wrote in The Times that the Committee of Imperial Defence should be placed under the chairmanship of a politician.

Rajaji was arrested in December 1940 in accordance with the Defence of India rules and sentenced to one-year in prison.

The need was now pressing, as Germany had declared war on the United States on 11 December 1941, and Galland was keen to build up a force that could withstand the resurgence of the Western Allied Air Forces in preparation for what would become known as the Defence of the Reich campaign.

George Orwell wrote an essay, " In Defence of English Cooking ", first published in the Evening Standard on 15 December 1945.

The department was formed in December 1916 from the secretariat of the Committee of Imperial Defence under Sir Maurice Hankey, the first Cabinet Secretary.

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When Gustav Noske was appointed Defence Minister on December 27, 1918, both Groener and his protégé Schleicher established excellent working relations with the new minister.

This wave of interest had been preceded by numerous letters to The Times in December 1979 questioning what Civil Defence arrangements were in place in the UK.

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* December 20-Lieutenant General Jean Boyle becomes Chief of the Defence Staff

On December 1, 1982 he succeeded Narcís Serra as Mayor of Barcelona, since Serra was appointed minister of Defence by the new Socialist government of Felipe González.

She is famed due to an incident that occurred on 16 December 2004, whereby the deputy speaker removed her from the house as she refused to apologise for calling the then Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon a " back-stabbing coward " during exchanges over Geoff Hoon's plans to merge Scottish Regiments, including the Black Watch.

On 10 December, the day after the agreement was announced, loyalist paramilitaries formed the Ulster Army Council — a coalition of loyalist paramilitary groups, including the Ulster Defence Association and the Ulster Volunteer Force, which would oppose the agreement.

* 16 October – Defence Minister George Fernandes announces that a significant number of the million troops deployed since December 2001 on the border with Pakistan will be withdrawn.

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Bowing somewhat to international criticism, Azali appointed a civilian Prime Minister, Bainrifi Tarmidi, in December 1999 ; however, Azali retained the mantle of Head of State and army Commander.

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Lord Palmerston, who at the time of Louis Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup was serving as the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Whig government of Prime Minister Lord John Russell.

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