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1Strategic Defense Initiative — Organization SDIO Agency overview Formed 1984 Dissolved 1993 (renamed) Superseding a …
2strategic — strategically, adv. /streuh tee jik/, adj. 1. pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements. 2. important in or essential to strategy. 3. (of an action, as a military operation or a move in a game) forming an… …
3National missile defense — This article is about systems to shield an entire country. For the ground based US missile defense system, see Ground Based Midcourse Defense. A Payload Launch Vehicle (PLV) carrying a prototype exoatmospheric kill vehicle is launched from Meck… …
4Missile defense — The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. A RIM 161 Standard Missile 3 anti ballistic missile is launched from USS Shiloh, a US Navy Ticonderoga class cruiser …
5Defense Logistics Agency — crest Agency overview Formed 1961 Headquarters …
6Missile Defense Agency — MDA Agency overview Formed 2002 Preceding agencies …
7Defense Threat Reduction Agency — Seal …
8DEFENSE FORCES — Ottoman and Mandatory Periods (1878–1948) The development of the self defense force of the yishuv was an influential part of the history of Jewish settlement in Ereẓ Israel. In the last quarter of the 19th century, when the first Jewish… …
9Defense Production Act — The Defense Production Act (Pub.L. 81 774) is a United States law enacted on September 8, 1950, in response to the start of the Korean War. It was part of a broad civil defense and war mobilization effort in the context of the Cold War. Its… …
10Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center — Defense Cyber Crime Center Seal Agency overview Formed 1998 Headquarters Linthicum, Maryland Parent …
