The State Defense Committee (Russian: Государственный комитет обороны (ГКО), romanized: Gosudarstvennyĭ komitet oborony (GKO)) was an extraordinary organ...

State Defense Committee (Polish: Komitet Obrony Kraju; KOK) was a government organization which existed from 1959 in the Polish People's Republic and...

The State Defense Council is the military command committee of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI), established by the separatist government of Dzhokhar...

United States, state defense forces (SDFs) are military units that operate under the sole authority of a state government. State defense forces are authorized...

Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (Spanish: Comités de Defensa de la Revolución), or CDR, are a network of neighborhood committees across Cuba...

Petrov, a state security captain. After the 22 June 1941 German invasion of the USSR, Stalin on 17 July, as Chairman of State Defense Committee, signed...

State Defense Committee in the Soviet Union Defense Committees, in Spanish Civil War Black Action Defence Committee, Canada Lawyers Military Defense Committee...

Budyonny, Nikolai Kuznetsov. On July 10, 1941, by a decree of the State Defense Committee, in connection with the formation of the High Commands of the Troops...

Commissar of Defense. During the war, the activities of the People's Commissariats of the Soviet Union were subordinate to the State Committee of Defense of the...

jurisdiction with other committees in the House, including the Armed Services Committee for some matters dealing with the Department of Defense and the various...

post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan's chairman of the State Defense Committee in 1992–1993 and first Minister of Defense in 1993–1999. Myrzakan Subanov was born in...

Patriotic War, the issues of defense of the Soviet state were transferred to the newly created State Defense Committee, which was a more powerful body...

The Truman Committee, formally known as the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, was a United States Congressional investigative...

of the State Defense Committee in relocation of oilmen and equipment of the Caucasian regions to the East. In 1941, The State Defense Committee decided...

Union-Republican state committees State Planning Committee State Committee for Construction State Committee for Defense Technology State Committee for Metallurgy...

Secretariat, and during World War II was made a member of the State Defense Committee, where his primary responsibilities were aircraft and missile production...

The State Committee on the State of Emergency (Russian: Госуда́рственный комите́т по чрезвыча́йному положе́нию, romanized: Gosudárstvenny komitét po chrezvycháynomu...

The United States secretary of defense (SecDef) is the head of the United States Department of Defense (DoD), the executive department of the U.S. Armed...

Great Patriotic War in Russia) when it was subordinated to the State Defense Committee (SDC), formed on 30 June 1941 to govern the Soviet Union during...

handed the notebook to the office of the Commissioner of the USSR State Defense Committee for Science, Professor Sergey Kaftanov. The notebook contained...

posts in the Red Army during World War II, and served in Stalin's State Defense Committee. In 1947, he succeeded Stalin as Minister for the Armed Forces...

The Workers' Defense Committee (Polish: Komitet Obrony Robotników pronounced [kɔmitɛt ɔbrɔnɨ rɔbɔtɲikuf], KOR) was a Polish civil society group that was...

served as Chairman of Kazakhstan's State Defense Committee in 1991-1992 and Kazakhstan's first Minister of Defense following the dissolution of the Soviet...

National Defense Authorization Act, which has been passed by Congress and signed into law each year since 1962. The Armed Services Committee has jurisdiction...

people's commissariats of the Soviet Union were subordinated to the State Defense Committee – an emergency management body under the leadership of Joseph Stalin...

Department of Defense's stated mission is "to provide the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation's security". The Department of Defense is headed...

The Syndicalist Defense Committee (French: Comité de Défense Syndicaliste; CDS) was a French anti-militarist trade union centre of the General Confederation...

and finally Joseph Stalin. In July 1941, by a decision of the State Defense Committee, the Academy of Industry was disbanded. William J. Tompson, Khrushchev:...

The State Planning Committee, commonly known as Gosplan (Russian: Госплан, IPA: [ɡosˈpɫan]), was the agency responsible for central economic planning in...

ISBN 978-0333794630. Baylis, Thomas A. (1989). Governing by Committee: Collegial Leadership in Advanced Societies. State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-88706-944-4...