Angola, at the presidency of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries ( CPLP ) since 2010, has since March 21, 2011, a military mission in Guinea-Bissau ( MISSANG ) to assist the reform in sector of defence and security.

The government continues to try to promote this sector and its competitiveness, actively marketing the defence industry.

The security and defence solutions area develop systems within the civil security sector as well as training and simulation solutions.

This logistical bottleneck had raised German hopes that the French could not sustain an effective defence of the Verdun sector beyond a few weeks.

In 2010 the Indian Government ordered 788 vehicles from public sector defence equipment manufacturer BEML.

However, the UK has a very active aerospace sector, including the largest defence contractor in the world, BAE Systems, supplying fully assembled aircraft, aircraft components, sub-assemblies and sub-systems to other manufacturers, both in Europe and all over the world.

This sector was later designated Lonsdale Force and would remain the main line of defence on the south eastern perimeter.

These include the Office of Ethnic Affairs, which provides information to ethnic communities and policy advice to the government ; the Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management, which manages the national response to civil defence emergencies, provides leadership of the sector including the development of standards and guidance and leads a coordinated national public education campaign ; and the Local Government Commission, which makes decisions on the structure and representation requirements of local government.

It constructs a variety of ships both for the defence and civilian sector.

Since February 2002, MBDA owns 40 % of Inmize Sistemas S. L., a Spanish company which was formed to integrate the experience and technology of the major Spanish defence companies in the guided weapons sector.

Coastal artillery sometimes had completely different organizational terms based on shore defence sector areas.

On 27 April, after a spirited but futile defence, the remnants of Nordland were pushed back into the centre government district ( Zitadelle sector ) in Defence sector Z.

Primary income often comes from employment in the service sector, including industries such as insurance and banking, defence related employment, retail and management.

In this sector the defence was weak and the coastal strong points were easily knocked out before the troops pushed inland to tackle the German artillery batteries.

England remains a key player in the aerospace, defence, pharmaceutical and chemical industries, and British companies worldwide continue to have a role in the sector through foreign investment.

Defence diplomacy does not include military operations, but subsumes such other defence activity as international personnel exchanges, ship and aircraft visits, high level engagement ( e. g. Ministers and senior defence personnel ), training and exercises, security sector reform, bilateral military staff talks, etc.

The Department of Defence Policy and Long-Term Planning is responsible for strategic analysis, the development of long-term defence policy and overall planning for the defence sector.

While many of PSAC ’ s 172, 000 members work for the federal government, crown corporations or agencies as immigration officers, fisheries officers, food inspectors, customs officers, national defence civilian employees, and the like, an increasing number of PSAC members work in the private sector: in women ’ s shelters, universities, security agencies and casinos.

These were then forwarded to the Operations Room at RAF Uxbridge, which allocated appropriate defence resources and passed orders on to No. 11 Group sector airfields.

Furthermore, Stalin ignored sensible advice provided by his own General Chief of Staff, who recommended organising a strong defence in the southwestern sector in order to be able to repulse any Wehrmacht attack.

* Capability management in the defence sector

On November 16, 2008, the Foreign Minister of Ecuador Maria Isabel Salvador met her counterpart, Pranab Mukherjee, with a close relationship in oil and defence between these geographically distant countries high on the agenda.

The Embassy here has expanded its setup with the appointment of a Military Attache and prospects appear bright for more defence exports as Ecuador has agreed to be the servicing hub in South America for Indian defence equipment.

* Ecuadorian wartime records of the downing differ greatly from Peruvian ones as Ecuador did not have any anti-aircraft guns located in the area, and the limited artillery located at the Machala was, due to a mistake by the minister of defence, useless as he ordered the wrong calibre of ammunition to be delivered to the units.

In April 1941, he became commander of XII Corps responsible for the defence of Kent.

The Attlee government then became instrumental in the creation of the successful NATO defence alliance to protect Western Europe against any Soviet aggression.

Finland became a full member of the European Union ( EU ) in January 1995, at the same time acquiring observer status in the EU's defence arm, the Western European Union.

Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region ( SAR ) of the PRC with a high degree of autonomy in all matters except foreign affairs and defence, which are responsibilities of the PRC government.

The House of Lords asked the judges of the common law courts to answer five questions on insanity as a criminal defence, and the formulation that emerged from their review — that a defendant should not be held responsible for his actions only if, as a result of his mental disease or defect, he ( i ) did not know that his act would be wrong ; or ( ii ) did not understand the nature and quality of his actions — became the basis of the law governing legal responsibility in cases of insanity in England.

In 1788 Reynolds painted the portrait of Lord Heathfield, who became a national hero for his successful defence of Gibraltar during its Great Siege from 1779 to 1783 against the combined forces of France and Spain.

This was because governing power, and defence against Viking, Magyar and Saracen attack, became an essentially local affair which revolved around these new hereditary local lords and their demesnes.

In Norse mythology, Miðgarðr became applied to the wall around the world that the gods constructed from the eyebrows of the giant Ymir as a defence against the Jotuns who lived in Jotunheim, east of Mannheim, " the home of men ," a word used to refer to the entire world.

Murray now became more and more emotional in her defence of her ideas, claiming that anyone who opposed her did so out of religious prejudice.

Jenkins was principal sponsor, in 1959, of the bill which became the liberalising Obscene Publications Act, responsible for establishing the " liable to deprave and corrupt " criterion as a basis for a prosecution of suspect material and for specifying literary merit as a possible defence.

With the invention of gunpowder, cannon and ( in modern times ) mortars and howitzers, the traditional methods of defence became less effective against a determined siege.

* Nicomedia in northwestern Asia Minor ( modern Izmit in Turkey ), a base for defence against invasion from the Balkans and Persia's Sassanids was the capital of Diocletian, the eastern ( and most senior ) Augustus ; in the final reorganisation by Constantine the Great, in 318, the equivalent of his domain, facing the most redoubtable foreign enemy, Sassanid Persia, became the pretorian prefecture Oriens ' the East ', the core of later Byzantium.

Vickers remained independent until 1999 when the then Vickers plc was acquired by Rolls-Royce plc who sold the defence arm to Alvis plc, which became Alvis Vickers.

In 1985, Jaruzelski resigned as prime minister and defence minister and became chairman of the Polish Council of State, a post equivalent to that of president or a dictator, with his power centered on and firmly entrenched in his coterie of " LWP " generals and lower ranks officers of the Polish Communist Army.

The chief leg of the Bermudian economy became defence infrastructure.

Following the Crimean War, the trend was towards reducing military garrisons in colonies like Bermuda, partly for economic reasons, and partly as it became recognised that the Royal Navy's own ships could provide a better defence for the Dockyard, and Bermuda.

It was one of the points occupied and fortified by the former, when preparing for the defence of the Sicilian straits, but was taken by Agrippa after his naval victory at Mylae, and became one of his chief posts, from which he carried on offensive warfare against Pompey.

Defence consolidation became a major issue in 1998, with numerous reports linking various European defence groups — mainly with each other but also with American defence contractors.

However when it became clear that GEC was selling its defence electronics business Marconi Electronic Systems, Evans put the DASA merger on hold in favour of purchasing Marconi.

Between 1945 and GEC's demerger of its defence business in 1999, the company became one of the world's most important defence contractors.

The Germans fortified the island and, in the words of Robert Ensor and as Alexandra had predicted, it " became the keystone of Germany's maritime position for offence as well as for defence ".

A high standard of scholarship was maintained and the severity of the actus Sorbonnicus, or examination for degrees, including the defence of the " thesis Robertina ", became proverbial.