Today, the Department of Defense has some 2, 700 military dogs in service world-wide and about 600 in war zones.
In football, this might be different play calling (Bill Walsh and the West Coast Offense) or traits of individual position players ( Lawrence Taylor, the Tampa 2 Defense).
Urlacher, who will be 35 when the season kicks off, anchored the Bears' famous Cover-2 defense for over a decade, reaching a Super Bowl in 2007 while using his rare combination of speed and size to roam the middle of the field while the Bears defensive backs took care of the outside.
Without those rookie sessions, Manning doesn't scan the field, see a Cover-2 defense, recognize that the Patriots jammed his top two receivers on the right, look off New England's safeties, slide up in the pocket and thread the ball 38 yards into the teeniest of windows for Mario Manningham for the game's biggest play.
The budget resolution would limit increases in non-defense discretionary spending to 2.9 percent through 2014, according to Conrad.
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Look, it takes the entire defense budget to tie 2, 000 scientists together.
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In this weekend's AFC Championship game against the Ravens, whose defense ranked No. 2 in the league against the rush, Green-Ellis doesn't figure to get a lot of carries.
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This point was repeatedly made in response to criticisms that the Air Force and the Defense Department had not worked out a strategy for funding the B-2 in an era of diminishing defense spending.
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The Orange are ready to unleash their stifling 2-3 defense on this group of Wolverines.
The biggest employer in the world is the US Department of Defense, with 3.2 million employees.
The U.S. Department of Defense holds the No. 2 spot and is the top government employer on the list.
On Tuesday, the Israeli Cabinet approved a Defense request for an additional 2, 500 soldiers to be called up if needed.
Sparked by Boeheim's vaunted 2-3 zone defense, they started playing better when they headed to New York for the Big East tournament.
And for Syracuse, well, it's coach Jim Boeheim's 2-3 zone defense.
Pikeville then proceeded to back up into a 2-3 zone defense for the rest of the half where they ballooned to an unheard of 70-0 lead.
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DePaul entered the game shooting 30.1 percent from 3-point range and Syracuse's staunch 2-3 zone defense was tied with Providence for the stingiest against the long-range game in the Big East, allowing 28.9 percent.
In fact, the Gates plan is to seek after-inflation increases of 1-2 percent in the defense budget in the years ahead, and to generate a similar amount in savings so that the joint force can keep up with modernization costs expected to grow 3 percent annually after inflation.
This message was delivered by a visibly discomfited and somewhat wizened looking Defense Minister Morimoto Satoshi on the July 2.
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According to the International Institute of Strategic Studies, only one country in Eastern Europe spends more than 2% of GDP on defense.
The Huskies built a 10-point halftime lead playing incredible defense and Notre Dame (35-2) could only get within six in the second half as its school record 30-game winning streak came to an end.
Elias closed the gap to 2-1 by splitting the defense and beating Markstrom with a shot from between the circles.
Government spending on nondefense discretionary programs will be 19.2% higher and spending on defense will be 13.8% higher than it was in 2007.
In fact, the Pentagon was so upset by these mischaracterizations of the B-2 program that Under Secretary of Defense Paul Kaminski felt compelled to issue a rebuttal of significant portions of the report.
In 2006, allies agreed to commit to spend a minimum of 2% of gross domestic product on defense.
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That didn't deter the Blue Demons, who gained an early lead by victimizing the Orange's perimeter defense three times in a span of just over 2 minutes.
No one, not even the Soviets themselves, knew exactly how much it cost but it was a large enough figure that the best estimates about the Soviet defense burden have a margin of error of around 2% of GDP.
The latter, after all, enjoys two distinct advantages over the former: (1) Orbiting sensors and interceptors are cheaper to build and maintain -- on the order of a 3-to-1 cost advantage -- and (2) they offer continuous, global defense coverage.
By 2006 Russia spent about 2.7% of its GDP on defense, about that of advanced European countries.
Federal defense purchases declined at an annual rate of 22.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012, the largest quarterly decline in 40 years.
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In Scotland, Team USA made a sluggish start to the defense of the gold they won in Beijing, falling 2-0 down to France after just 13 minutes.
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