An organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack.
1The victims are said to include members of a civilian defence force.
2You don't use the defence force for party political advantage, he said.
3His extended family suffered because of his role with the defence force.
4Marape had previously said he would send the defence force to help.
5The principal task of any defence force is to resist armed attack.
6Police and the defence force will be maintaining cordons in the area.
7The defence force said they have also recovered 12 kilogrammes of cocaine.
8Self- defence force personnel and rescue workers search for bodies amid the mud.
9The defence force has never been a neutral custodian of constitutional rule.
10The embassy has an over-the-shoulder feed from the Tonala defence force headquarters.
11Going straight into the defence force would be a little too confrontational.
12About 100 members of New Zealand's defence force are leaving for Afghanistan today.
13He said the defence force had already been working with police.
14Ms Jawad said she was still waiting to hear from the defence force.
15He would not rule out defence force personnel remaining in Iraq past 2018.
16The defence force has also deployed soldiers to patrol the border.
Translations for defence force