Defense

The words ''defense'' or ''defence'' can refer to any of the following: *For defense of a doctoral dissertation see thesis committee *For the military term see defense (military) *Civil defense measures and emergency preparedness *In politics, ''defense'' may be a euphemism for war *For legal defense see defense (legal) *For defense in sport see defense (sport) This disambiguation article uses the American English variant of the word. "Defense" is predominantly American English, while "defence" is used in all other English language-speaking countries, similar to offence/offense. (''See also: American and British English differences''.) simple:Defense

Defense

I sense a large amount of non-NPOV here... I think this article needs to be drastically reworked. I'll start by moving a chunk of the text that seems unnecessary to the talk:Defense page, but I think people more experienced than I should try their hand at this article... --:KA ---- moved block: Defense in the modern world goes beyond 'Oogh',our caveman, and his club beating down tigers. Today defense is a multibillion dollar exploration into the latest, greatest technologies. Defense today, for many Americans, means a fighter jet buzzing overhead, or raining down bombs on 'evilones' oversees. Defense means a gun on the nightstand, a can of mace in the purse, a Club--the popular lock for steering wheels--on their car, a five-sided building with men in pressed pants, decorated with metals, standing over maps, and saving our country from those who wish us harm. Defense has become a 200-plus billion dollar budget allocation to the Armed Forces alone in the United States, not to mention Homeland Security; the FBI, the CIA, the NSC, and the thousands of police departments from New York City, New York, to Proctorville, Ohio. Defense, though in many senses, has reamined the same; we all need to protect ourselves and those that we value--ou r family, our friends,our neighbors,the citizens of our country-- from the adversity of our enviroment, and the dangerous that surround us. Though defense may have started with Ugh fighting off a tiger --though it likely did not--, the business of defense can no longer be seen as a solo operation: ''Any real defense is a common defense'' ---- I'd like to make this more useful as a disambiguation page. So how about adding links to pages at Defense (sport), Defense (legal), Defense (politics) and Defense (military)? Is this a good idea? Are these the best titles? -- User:Sannse 07:43 May 3, 2003 (UTC) : I think this makes sense, as far as defense (legal) is concerned such a page can really be a quite detailed article in its own right, and seeing how many list of legal topics link here, it makes sense that it has its own link so that those pages can be corrected to link directly there. User:Alex756 10:32 16 May 2003 (UTC) ::OK, I'll have a go at separating the pages. They will be rather stubish for now but hopefully will develop. -- User:Sannse 19:01 16 May 2003 (UTC) :::That's much better. Good move, sannse. User:Tannin ::Humm, I've just moved defense (law) to defense (legal) but now I'm not sure. Which is the better title? -- User:Sannse 19:30 16 May 2003 (UTC) ::: Flip a coin. "Legal", I guess. User:Tannin ::Tails it is then -- User:Sannse == True or false?? == True or false: ''defense'' is the United States spelling and ''defence'' is the Canadian spelling. User:66.32.248.34 19:42, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC) :Yes, ''defence'' is also the UK spelling, etc. --User:Taestell 04:28, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC) == NPOV: Removed USDoD as euphemism example == Under defense as a politial euphemism for war, somebody had placed "(See United States Department of Defense)" or somesuch. It may have been unintentional, but this would doubtless convey the implication (to some readers) that initiating war is the true purpose of the USDoD. This is a view worthy of discussion, perhaps, but explicitly and not by implication. --User:NathanHawking 01:48, 2004 Oct 6 (UTC)

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