Defense

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Defense or defence may refer to:

Tactics and strategy

• Defense (military)
• Defense (sports)
  • Defender (association football)
  • Defenceman (ice hockey)
• Biological defense (disambiguation)
• a chess opening by Black
• Self-defense
• Civil defense

Politics and economics

• National security
  • Defence diplomacy
  • Defence minister
  • Ministry of Defence
• International security
• Defense industry
  • Defense contractor

Concepts in law

• Defense (legal)
• Defence of property
• Right of self-defense

Other uses

• HMS Defence, Royal Navy ships of this name
• Defense of a doctoral thesis, also called viva voce; see dissertation
• La Défense, a business district in Paris
  • The Grande Arche, commonly known as Arche de la Défense, in Paris
• DeFence, an art project
• Haganah (Hebrew for "The Defence"), a paramilitary organization in British Palestine
• Defence mechanisms

See also

• All pages beginning with "Defense"
• All pages beginning with "Defence"
• All pages beginning with "Defensive"
• All pages with a title containing Defense
• All pages with a title containing Defence
• Defender (disambiguation)