Defense

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

The tactics and strategy of defending against attack:

• Defense (military)
• Defense (sport)
  • Defender (football), a specialist defensive player in association football
  • Defenceman (ice hockey), a specialist defensive player in ice hockey
• a Chess opening as created in reply by Black
• Defense (legal)
• Self-defense
• Civil defense

In politics and economics:

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

Concepts in law:

• Self-defense (theory)
• Defense of property

In psychology:

• Defence mechanism

It may also refer to:

• A euphemism for war or the military
• Defense of a doctoral thesis, also called viva voce; see Thesis committee
• La Défense, a business district in Paris
• The Grande Arche, commonly known as Arche de la Défense, a monument in the Parisian district of the same name
• 'DeFence', an interactive conceptual art project for freedom of cohabitation
• The Haganah (in Hebrew: "The Defence"), a paramilitary organization in British Palestine
• Tower defense, a genre of video game
• The pharmaceutical Cimetidine, used for treating gastric ulcers