Shaukat Qadir, who taught many senior Pakistani generals at the country's National Defence University.
On the streets of one district, the "Lionesses for National Defence" are in action.
But fears of bioterrorism gave drug firms a new, and potentially lucrative, role in national defence.
It has few threats to its security, meaning that it can afford to spend relatively little on national defence.
It also spends more on internal security than national defence, suggesting it fears its own people.
However, Hamayoun Khan, of the National Defence University in Islamabad, insists that China's interest in Gwadar remains chiefly commercial.
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Restrictions will remain on many doctors, members of the military and athletes, which Cuba attributes to reasons of national defence and security.
In recent years, some groups have campaigned for a National Defence Medal, separate to those awarded for specific campaigns.
Another source of the shrinkage was a surprising reduction in national defence spending.
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In June Mr Jang was promoted to the post of vice-chairman of the National Defence Commission, the country's decision-making body.
Ms Velazquez is also accused of passing on documents and information to Cuban intelligence officials on matters relating to US national defence.
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The National Defence Highway Act actually is very interesting because the entire system of interstate highways was developed under the Eisenhower administration.
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Very little talk about economic development, very little talk about the good of the nation in any respect other than national defence.
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"Despite the success, South Korea can hardly do away with Russia's help, " Li Daguang, a professor at the University of National Defence, concurs.
And to ensure an even tighter grip, the SCAF issued a separate decree forming a National Defence Council to oversee all military and security affairs.
Tri-national defence conglomerate MBDA is one enterprise anxious to be involved.
Meanwhile, North Korea's new leader Kim Jong-un has been appointed "first chairman" of the country's top decision-making body, the National Defence Commission, state media say.
One idea is that France should set up a National Defence and Security Council, loosely modelled on the American version, to co-ordinate domestic and foreign security.
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It quoted one fictional West Virginian resident as saying he would rather go to a baseball game with Mr Ahmadinejad because "he takes national defence seriously".
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Mr Chang, who as head of domestic security runs North Korea's equivalent to the KGB, was elected to the powerful National Defence Commission (NDC) last year.
Phillip Saunders, of the National Defence University in Washington, says the same goes for PLA strategists, who reckon they now have greater power to unsettle America.
The meritocracy is inexorably turning into a matriarchy, and visibly so on many campuses: the heads of Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Brown and the National Defence University are all women.
But to achieve reasonable scale despite a relatively small national defence budget, and to compete with rivals many times its size, IAI has been obliged to chase foreign sales.
Similarly with the National Defence Education Act of 1958 and the related act in 1959, again the rhetoric is about keeping up with the Soviet Union, particularly after Sputnik.
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"First they underestimate the security defence capabilities of the Pentagon, and second they underestimate the intelligence of the Chinese people, " said the statement, attributed to national defence spokesman Geng Yansheng.
The story quoted a West Virginia resident as saying the Iranian leader "takes national defence seriously, and he'd never let some gay protesters tell him how to run his country like Obama does".
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The Higher Education Policy Act, the acts of 1958, '59, just like the National Defence Highway Act of 1956 were vehicles by which public goods were generated under the rubric of national defence.
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Prof Bogdanor and Major General Patrick Cordingley, former commander of 7th Armoured Brigade and vice president of the UK National Defence Association, debate how far former commanders should be allowed to enter the public forum.
Since Mr Jo is second-in-command to North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il, on the country's National Defence Commission, this was America's chance to hear the next best thing to his master's voice on these pressing problems.
The South African National Defence Force Union (Sandu), which represents soldiers, said Mr Zuma should recall troops immediately, "even if it entails launching a military offensive to relieve our troops in distress", its national secretary Pikkie Greeff said.
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