"comprehensive defense" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe defense measures that are thorough and comprehensive. For example, "The General offered a comprehensive defense plan to fortify the city against attack."
Go to www.slate.com/Landesman for a wide-ranging assault on the piece by Slate editor at large Jack Shafer and for a comprehensive defense by Times Magazine editor Gerald Marzo-rati.
It amounted to a comprehensive defense of the administration's decision to end International Monetary Fund emergency aid to Argentina, where default led to the fall of the government, rioting and chaos.
Following their occupation of Afghanistan, the Chagatai Mongols began to penetrate well beyond the Punjab, necessitating a comprehensive defense program for the sultanate, including the capital, Delhi, which underwent a two-month siege in 1303.
That's why I called for this comprehensive defense review -- to clarify our strategic interests in a fast-changing world, and to guide our defense priorities and spending over the coming decade -- because the size and the structure of our military and defense budgets have to be driven by a strategy, not the other way around.
Two of Dell Inc.'s biggest outside investors on Monday laid out the most comprehensive defense of their plan for the company to date, while attacking the company's planned $24.4 billion sale to Michael S. Dell and the investment firm Silver Lake.
The problem is that it isn't clear who has the remit for comprehensive defense of the internet.
In recent years, specialists have warned repeatedly of the danger and cost of the failure to develop a comprehensive flood defense system for the country.
During the Cold War the Soviet Union organized a comprehensive civil defense program, with compulsory public training and drills, periodic alerts, and widespread dissemination of information.
He became prime minister in 1914 after the Liberal ministry had resigned in protest over the proposed comprehensive national defense plan that Hammarskjöld soon implemented.
Both men know that Mr. Blair's endorsement will eventually become crucial for President Bush's plans for a comprehensive missile defense system, because American radar sites here would play an integral role in detecting missile launchings near Europe.
In a speech in Washington on May 23, he said that "the world has changed faster than United States policy" and called for a fresh approach to nuclear weapons and a more comprehensive missile defense system.
