Defence Council may refer to:
- Croatian Defence Council, the main military formation of the Croats during the Bosnian War charged with achieving military objectives
- Defence Council of the United Kingdom, the body legally entrusted with the defence of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories
- Provisional National Defence Council, the Ghanaian government after the People's National Party's elected government was overthrown on the previous election
Famous quotes containing the words defence and/or council:
“There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.”
—E.V. (Edward Verrall)
“Daughter to that good Earl, once President
Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
Who lived in both, unstain’d with gold or fee,
And left them both, more in himself content.
Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
Broke him, as that dishonest victory
At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—”
—John Milton (1608–1674)