Defense

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Defense or defence (see -ce/-se) may refer to:

[edit] Tactics and strategy of defending against attack

• Defense (military)
• Defense (sports)
  • Defender (association football)
  • Defenceman (ice hockey)
• a Chess opening as created in reply by Black
• Self-defense
• Civil defense

[edit] Politics and economics

• National security
  • Defense minister
• International security
• The defense industry
  • Defense contractor, a company that provides defense-related services

[edit] Concepts in law

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

[edit] In psychology

• Defence mechanism

[edit] In philosophy

• Defenses and theodicies regarding the problem of evil

[edit] See also

• A euphemism for war or the military
• 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 artproject
• Haganah (in Hebrew: "The Defence"), a paramilitary organization in British Palestine
• Tower defense, a type of strategy game
• The pharmaceutical Cimetidine, used for treating gastric ulcers

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