The Committee for the Defence of National Interests (original name in French: Comité pour la défense des intérêts nationaux; abbreviated CDNI or CDIN)...

National security, or national defence (national defense in American English), is the security and defence of a sovereign state, including its citizens...

Defence Select Committee, except for Defence Intelligence which instead falls under the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament. During the...

member of the Committee for the Defence of National Interests on 17 June 1958. On 25 December 1959, he took control of the capital of Vientiane and the nation...

with the LPRP and is tasked with involving non-party citizens in government and cultural affairs. Committee for the Defence of National Interests (founded...

in 1960. He was elected President of National Assembly from 1961 to 1963. Stuart-Fox, Martin; Historical Dictionary of Laos; Plymouth UK ²2008, ISBN 978-0-8108-5624-0...

for the political, economic, cultural and social affairs of the state, and its security, defence and foreign relations. It was also responsible for increasing...

is charged with the defence of Australia and its national interests. Along with the ADF, it forms part of the larger Australian Defence Organisation (ADO)...

main goals remain the development and maintenance of a credible capability to defend the nation's vital interests and of the defence forces in a way that...

and Thailand covertly funded the Committee for the Defence of National Interests and bribed their opponents to withdraw. The elections were rigged and marked...