The phrase "a range of defence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing various methods, strategies, or options available for protection or security in a particular context.
Example: "The military has implemented a range of defence measures to protect the nation from potential threats."
Alternatives: "a variety of defense" or "a spectrum of defense".
In psychoanalysis it is believed that, in order to deal with conflict, the ego has a range of defence mechanisms.
It notes that France's return to Nato's integrated military structures "offers an opportunity for even greater co-operation with a key partner across a range of defence activity".
In its statement, BAE said: "BAE Systems and the UK Government have been in discussions with the Government of the United Arab Emirates regarding a range of defence and security capabilities including the potential supply of Typhoon aircraft.
"In Europe, the return of France to Nato's integrated military structures offers an opportunity for even greater co-operation with a key partner across a range of defence activity," it said.
Organisms protect themselves against predators using a range of defence mechanisms, many of which are plastic and expressed only under predation risk [1].
The healthy lung has a range of defence mechanisms that protect the lower respiratory airways against invading microbial pathogens.
Because law and equity offer a range of defences that partially overlap and the rationale for matching equitable defences to equitable remedies is at least as obscure as the rationale for separate equitable remedies, conventional wisdom holds that the more one can fuse the equitable defences into the law the better.
Within the UK, a range of flood defence systems are used.
"Collectively, the systems include a range of air defence capabilities, including radar and detection equipment as well as weapons, which will provide a powerful deterrent and protection against the threat of an attack from the air".
To explain the existence of highly specialised parasites, Poulin (1998) proposed the "trade-off hypothesis" (TOH), which states that a species (such as a predator or parasite) exploiting multiple victims (prey or hosts) is more likely to encounter a range of different defence systems and, because of the costs in overcoming each, cannot be optimally adapted to all victim types.
SA also induces the expression of a range of pathogen defence genes in plants [ 51, 52].
