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  • 1defense economics — Field of national economic management concerned with peacetime and wartime military expenditures. It arose in response to the greater scale and sophistication of warfare in the 20th century. Most nations seek to avoid the vast financial and human …

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  • 2defense — de|fense [ dı fens ] noun *** ▸ 1 someone/something that protects ▸ 2 proof someone/something is right ▸ 3 protection from illness ▸ 4 in sports ▸ 5 attempt to win again ▸ 6 behavior that protects 1. ) uncount actions that you take to protect… …

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  • 3spending — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ total ▪ There has been an increase in total government spending. ▪ high, low ▪ additional, increased ▪ …

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  • 4Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense) — Infobox US Cabinet official name=Harold Brown order=14th title=United States Secretary of Defense term start=January 21, 1977 term end=January 20, 1981 predecessor=Donald Rumsfeld successor=Caspar Weinberger birth date=birth date and… …

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  • 5United States Department of Defense — Department of Defense Department overview Formed August 10, 1949 (1949 08 10) …

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  • 6Foreign internal defense — (FID) is used by a number of Western militaries, explicitly by the United States but sharing ideas with countries including France and the United Kingdom, to describe an approach to combating actual or threatened insurgency in a foreign state… …

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  • 7National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 — For other uses of HR4986, see HR 4986. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 is a law in the United States signed by President George W. Bush on January 28, 2008. As a bill it was H.R. 4986 in the 110th Congress. The overall …

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  • 8Louis A. Johnson — Infobox US Cabinet official name=Louis A. Johnson small order=2nd president=Harry S. Truman title=United States Secretary of Defense term start=March 28, 1949 term end=September 19, 1950 predecessor=James Forrestal successor=George Marshall birth …

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  • 9Uganda — Ugandan, adj., n. /yooh gan deuh, ooh gahn /, n. an independent state in E Africa, between the NE Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British protectorate. 20,604,874; 91,065 sq. mi.… …

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  • 10Richard Nixon — Nixon redirects here. For other uses, see Nixon (disambiguation). For other people named Nixon, see Nixon (surname). Richard Nixon 37th President of the United States In offi …

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