defense
Let an agent explain defence in the national and homeland sense, relay policy, institutions and history from official and scholarly sources without operational detail, describe historical defence systems, and distinguish this sense from legal, sporting and other senses.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain defence in the national and homeland sense, relay policy, institutions and history from official and scholarly sources without operational detail, describe historical defence systems, and distinguish this sense from legal, sporting and other senses.
The protection of a state, territory or people against attack, in the sense of national defence organised through armed forces, homeland defence against threats within a territory, specialised fields such as radiological defence, and historical systems such as the Kamakura period coastal guard duties known as ikoku keigo banyaku and Nagato keigo banyaku that defended Japan against Mongol invasion, or the defence of the Netherlands in 1940; defence policy, budgets and alliances are central to statecraft, and the word also names legal, sporting and psychological senses.
What it is for: Protecting states and peoples from attack.
It can be explain the concept; relay policy and institutions; describe historical systems; distinguish other senses.
Distinguishing features
State function
Armed forces and civil defence
Policy and alliances
Historical systems
What it looks like
Not a visible object; ministries, forces and installations.
Physical character
world military spending: about 2.4 trillion USD - SIPRI 2023
How it is recognised
Protection of a state against attack
National defence, homeland defence, radiological defence, historical coastal guard systems, defence of the Netherlands 1940
Legal defence is a case argument; sporting defence is a team role; psychological defence is a mechanism
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms, the general concept
is organised by - in most states
is carried out by - and civil defence
is coordinated through - in collective defence
In practice
Families and kinds
national defence and defence policy
homeland defence and civil defence
specialised fields such as radiological and cyber defence
collective defence through alliances
historical defence systems such as Kamakura coastal guard duties
historical campaigns such as the defence of the Netherlands in 1940
Standards and regulation
National constitutions and defence laws
UN Charter on self-defence
Alliance treaties such as the North Atlantic Treaty
International humanitarian law
Failure modes and hazards
Agents providing operational or classified detail
Presenting defence policy debates as settled
Confusing senses of defence
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.defense-4
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What defence is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition and senses.
Definition
Definition.
- What is national defence, and how does it differ from legal, sporting and psychological senses? definition
- Is the question about defence policy in general, a historical system or operational matters the model does not cover? boundary
Components
Components.
Components
Components.
- What are armed forces, homeland and civil defence, and specialised fields such as radiological defence? definition
- Which entry fits the specific component? action
Policy Policy and institutions.
Regulation.
Institutions
Institutions.
Institutions
Institutions.
- How are defence ministries, forces and oversight organised in different states, from official sources? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Debates
Policy debates.
Debates
Debates.
- What debates surround defence spending, alliances and strategy, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
History Historical systems.
Attribution.
Japan
Kamakura coastal guard.
Japan
Japan.
- What were the ikoku keigo banyaku and Nagato keigo banyaku duties against the Mongol invasions, as historians describe? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Campaigns
Historical campaigns.
Campaigns
Campaigns.
- How do historians describe the defence of the Netherlands in 1940 and other defensive campaigns? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific campaign? action
Context Law and society.
Context.
Law
International law.
Law
Law.
- How does international law frame self-defence and collective defence? provenance
- Which entry fits self-defence in international law? action
Society
Society.
Society
Society.
- How do conscription, civil-military relations and public attitudes shape defence? provenance
- Which entry fits civil-military relations? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should national defence and civil defence be separate primary entries?
- How should official and scholarly sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming historical Japanese systems and a campaign; should they be split off?