Beyond the summit spotlight, European foreign and defence ministers were expected to try to forge a common stance on a controversial U.S. missile defence plan before their leaders meet with U.S. President George W. Bush in Gothenburg, Sweden on Thursday, Associated Press reported.
The report also urged the Ministry of Defence to plan for the loss or degradation of satellite-based communications systems in case they are damaged by severe space weather.
"Last year ministers claimed to have a long-term plan for defence, but just 28 weeks later there is an unseemly scramble to plug the serious financial holes in their plans, " he said.
There didn't seem to be any great plan for the defence of Baghdad.
The consortium of scientists from the Durham and Newcastle universities, and the UK government's Central Science Laboratory plan to identify these defence genes, enabling them to be used in wheat breeding programmes.
Shadow defence minister Gemma Doyle said the plan could only work if the government worked with employers and suggested considering anti-discrimination legislation for reservists to help them combine working life with a career in the reserves.
He slashed the defence budget and deferred by a year Australia's plan to raise foreign aid, from 0.35% of gross national income to 0.5% by 2015.
Two weeks ago, the defence secretary took a lot of flak for a war plan that, the critics said, put too much faith in this transformation.
The defence minister, Antonio Martino, is also seeing through a plan to abolish conscription and to overhaul the arms-procurement system.
The civil-defence authorities have imported cassava to plant from Brazil, and plan a fortnightly food parcel to each family in the interior for the next six months.
Ghana set out from the start to execute a well-organised game-plan of crowding out the Egyptians in midfield and defence, while looking to feed their front men quickly.
In the dying moments a resolute Saints defence successfully repelled increasingly desperate Wigan attacks, leaving Saints to plan another assault on Old Trafford and Wigan to contemplate another play-off semi-final defeat.
Prosecutors argued during the trial that Rafferty was a quick student of violence and a willing participant in the killings, while defence lawyers say he went along with Mr Beasley's plan because he feared for his life.
Juan Manuel Santos, the defence minister, said that he had co-ordinated the rescue plan with American officials.
Mr King must now come up with a Plan B, said Guy Anderson, senior analyst at defence consultants IHS Jane's.
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But most seem to think the best defence against a legal assault is to produce a relatively timid redistricting plan in the first place.
Talks between the two countries have stalled during the past year over the United States' plan to move ahead on tests of its proposed missile defence system which go against Russia's wishes.
The jobs were expected to move to a new Defence Technical College at Vale of Glamorgan by 2014, but the academy plan was scrapped as part of the review.
The RFU is trying to thrash out a strategic plan leading through the Six Nations and targeting a successful World Cup defence in 2007.
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The Ministry of Defence has been given a deadline of next May to come up with a workable plan to clean up the beach and prevent it becoming the first in the UK to be designated radioactive contaminated land.
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But a US defence department paper, citing an informant, said Air Force commander Gen Fernando Matthei rejected the plan.
Russia also expressed opposition to the plan, and said that it would seek agreement from the US that its missile defence system was not aimed at Russia's nuclear forces.
The defence may say her current story opens up the possibility she doctored the scene or used the time to plan a particular course of action.
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Shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy accused the government of lacking a coherent strategy, arguing that there was "a plan for cutting the Army but not for boosting the reservists".
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