• The Defense Language Office was an office within the United States Department of Defense. It was officially established in May 2005 under the Office of...
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    The Defense Language Institute (DLI) is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) educational and research institution consisting of two separate entities...
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  • The Defense Language Aptitude Battery (DLAB) is a test used by the United States Department of Defense to test an individual's potential for learning a...
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    The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) is a headquarters-level staff of the United States Department of Defense. It is the principal civilian staff...
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  • The Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) is a battery of foreign language tests produced by the Defense Language Institute and used by the United States...
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    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for...
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  • Security Education Program became part of the Defense Language and National Security Education Office, which “provides strategic direction, supports...
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    The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is an intelligence agency and combat support agency of the United States Department of Defense, specializing in defense...
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  • Chiefs of Staff. The Defense Language Office ensures a strategic focus on meeting present and future requirements for language and regional expertise...
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  • The Art of Self-Defense is a 2019 American martial arts black comedy film written and directed by Riley Stearns and starring Jesse Eisenberg, Alessandro...
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  • testing candidates. Defense Language Aptitude Battery Defense Language Proficiency Tests Center for Advanced Study of Language ILR scale "ILR FAQ". ILR....
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    Department of National Defense exercises executive supervision over the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Office of Civil Defense (OCD), the Philippine...
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    square metres (38,000,000 sq ft) of office space. Around its Grande Arche and esplanade ("le Parvis"), La Défense contains many of the Paris urban area's...
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  • A United States defense standard, often called a military standard, "MIL-STD", "MIL-SPEC", or (informally) "MilSpecs", is used to help achieve standardization...
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    The Minister of National Defense of the People's Republic of China is the head of the Ministry of National Defense and one of the top positions in the...
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    defense secretary executive supervision of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the Office of Civil Defense, the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office,...
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    Cabinet Office to full-fledged cabinet-level Ministry of Defense (防衛省, Bōei-shō). On 9 June 2006, the "Bill for Partial Revision of the Defense Agency...
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    Force, and the U.S. Department of Defense, thereby protecting the national security of the United States. The Office of Special Investigations capabilities:...
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    Civil defense or civil protection is an effort to protect the citizens of a state (generally non-combatants) from human-made and natural disasters. It...
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    Leon Panetta (category United States secretaries of defense)
    as secretary of defense (2011–2013), director of the CIA (2009–2011), White House chief of staff (1994–1997), director of the Office of Management and...
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    the General Staff and the office of the Commander of the TDF. Because of their territorial defense tasks the Territorial Defense Forces are involved in the...
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    The Ministry of Defense (Hebrew: משרד הביטחון, romanized: Misrad HaBitahon, lit. 'Ministry of Security', acronym: Hebrew: משהב"ט) of the government of...
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    WWII". Defense Language and National Security Education Office. Retrieved 14 March 2020. "History of the Presidio of Monterey - Army Language School"...
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  • The gay panic defense or homosexual advance defence is a victim blaming strategy of legal defense, which refers to a situation in which a heterosexual...
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    The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is an office within the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense that investigates unidentified flying...
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    Monica Witt (category Defense Language Institute alumni)
    Persian language at the Defense Language Institute before becoming an Airborne Cryptologic Language Analyst. She was then assigned to the Air Force Office of...
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  • The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2013 (short title) is a United States federal law which specifies the budget and expenditures...
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    office on September 13, 2023. On 26 December 2007, the Government of Japan made the decision to reform its Defense Agency to the Ministry of Defense in...
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    The Defence of the Polish Post Office in Danzig (Gdańsk) was one of the first acts of World War II in Europe, as part of the September Campaign.: 39, 42 ...
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  • The United States Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessment (ONA) was created in 1973 by Richard Nixon to serve as the Pentagon's "internal think...
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