The Defence Signals Branch – now known as the Australian Signals Directorate – was to "collaborate directly", with tasks as determined by the US National Security Agency, and "will exchange raw material, technical material and end product of these tasks".
The quasi-experimental evaluation collected pre- and post-intervention data from eight intervention and comparison facilities matched on defence force branch and baseline client volume.
All political parties realise that and a root and branch defence review is long overdue, but no decision will be taken until after the general election next year.
Answer (in so far as there is one): don't oppose missile defence root and branch; get behind the notion of transforming the military against new threats.Such an agenda would perhaps make Democrats less off-putting to conservative white men.
At the tip of this four-layer edifice are those metals and minerals mentioned most often in strategic-materials lists produced by the Department of Defence and other branches of government.
In 2004 the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a branch of America's Department of Defence, set up a race for driverless cars that promised $1 million to the team whose vehicle finished the 240km (150-mile) route fastest.
The New Zealand Defence Force has three branches: the Royal New Zealand Navy, the New Zealand Army and the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
If you don't know, it's the story of a fictional branch of British Defence Intelligence called Section 20, which always sounded to me like an article of anti-homosexual legislation that needed repealing.
It had plenty of admirers for the way it had pioneered a new branch of the defence industry, earning a total of around $2 billion from Uncle Sam for providing armed personnel to the Pentagon, the State Department and, secretly, the CIA.
Certainly there are themes here that have been echoed in the UK for quite some time - more joined-up government in the approach to security, better intelligence fusion, a root and branch reform of defence equipment procurement, to name but three.
