"defense institutions" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to formal organizations or structures that are responsible for providing defense, such as a national military. For example: "Our nation must invest in strong, effective defense institutions to ensure our security."
It involves strengthening the civilian institutions, while disciplining the defense institution to focus on its core missions and only the supporting role it ought to be offering civilian statecraft.
To the Editor: I wholeheartedly endorse David Brooks's defense of institutions and the role they play in giving meaning to our lives.
I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F.
On the user side, CEMADEN information is especially useful for national agencies such as the National Water Agency, the Brazilian Army, CENAD National Centree for Disaster and Risk Management), the Civil Defense, research institutions, universities, and climate centers.
Professor Carl Thayer, a former Southeast Asia regional specialist at numerous Australian defense education institutions, expected that, "Vietnam will focus its attention on getting some form of unity in ASEAN particularly as it will be chairing a ministerial meeting later in the year.
The standoff in North America led to the French-English wars of the 18th century in which beleaguered colonists increasingly looked to their own defenses and institutions, a trend that culminated in the American Revolution.
The group studying defense policy and institutions expected problems if the Iraqi Army was disbanded quickly -- a step L. Paul Bremer III, the chief American civil administrator in Iraq, took.
But in 1790 he published "Reflections on the Revolution in France," a blistering analysis of French events and a defense of traditional institutions as humanizing forces.
"Hospitals are the first line of defense, the first institutions that will feel the effects of an attack," said Charles N. Kahn III, president of the Federation of American Hospitals, a trade group of for-profit chains.
It is easy to be sarcastic this time of year as a defense against confusion; institutions of higher education are trying to become television shows optioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association's championship tournament.
