United States civil defense refers to the use of civil defense in the history of the United States, which is the organized non-military effort to prepare...

Civil defense (British English: civil defence) or civil protection is an effort to protect the citizens of a state (generally non-combatants) from human-made...

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

The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) was an agency of the United States Department of Defense from 1961–64. It replaced the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization...

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North")...

In the United States, civil forfeiture (also called civil asset forfeiture or civil judicial forfeiture) is a process in which law enforcement officers...

Civil defense in Israel deals with a variety of military and terrorist threats to the civilian population, which have included concealed bombs such as...

Seacoast defense was a major concern for the United States from its independence until World War II. Before airplanes, many of America's enemies could...

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States. The armed forces consist of six service branches: the Army, Marine Corps,...

defense organizations have been disbanded or mothballed (as in the case of the Royal Observer Corps in the United Kingdom and the United States civil...

The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged...

government agency via the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 on 12 January 1951. In 1958 the FCDA was superseded by the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization...

A civil defense siren is a siren used to provide an emergency population warning to the general population of approaching danger. Initially designed to...

departments of the Department of Defense. The U.S. Army is headed by a civilian senior appointed civil servant, the secretary of the Army (SECARMY),...

The United States federal civil service is the civilian workforce (i.e., non-elected and non-military public sector employees) of the United States federal...

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

The Federal Civil Defense Authority was established in the United States Department of Defense (DOD), by DOD Directive 5105.43, May 5, 1972. Federal Civil...

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is an intelligence agency and combat support agency of the United States Department of Defense, specializing in...

Civil liberties in the United States are certain unalienable rights retained by (as opposed to privileges granted to) citizens of the United States under...

the consequences of the force used. The term is most commonly used in the United States, though many other countries invoke comparable principles in their...

The availability of legally recognized same-sex marriage in the United States expanded from one state (Massachusetts) in 2004 to all fifty states in 2015...

governs the assertion of affirmative defenses in civil cases that are filed in the United States district courts. Rule 8(c) specifically enumerates the following...

The Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Republic of China (formally known as Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States of America...

United States Northern Command (NORTHCOM), ARNORTH is the joint force land component of NORTHCOM. ARNORTH is responsible for homeland defense and defense support...

of the President of the United States which consolidated the functions of the existing Office of Defense Mobilization and the Federal Civil Defense Administration...

Civil War is a 2024 dystopian war film written and directed by Alex Garland. It follows a team of journalists traveling across the United States during...

definitions of an agency of the federal government of the United States are varied, and even contradictory. The official United States Government Manual offers...

Battles of the American Civil War were fought between April 12, 1861, and May 12–13, 1865 in 19 states, mostly Confederate (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida...

defense (NMD) refers to the nationwide antimissile program the United States has had in development since the 1990s. After the renaming in 2002, the term...

International Critics' Week. Geist, Edward. Armageddon Insurance, Civil Defense in the United States and the Soviet Union, 1945–1991. University of North Carolina...