Defence Council may refer to:
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Croatian Defence Council
The Croatian Defence Council ( hr, Hrvatsko vijeće obrane or HVO) was the official military formation of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia, an unrecognized entity that existed in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1991 and 1996. The HVO wa ...
, the main military formation of the Croats during the Bosnian War charged with achieving military objectives
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Defence Council of the United Kingdom
The Defence Council of the United Kingdom is the body legally entrusted with the defence of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories and with control over the British armed forces, and is part of the Ministry of Defence.
Functions
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, the body legally entrusted with the defence of the United Kingdom and its overseas territories
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Provisional National Defence Council
The Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) was the name of the Ghanaian government after the People's National Party's elected government was overthrown by Jerry Rawlings, the former head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, in a co ...
, the Ghanaian government after the People's National Party's elected government was overthrown on the previous election
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Defense Council of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, officially a state organ of the Soviet Union it functioned informally as a body subordinate to the CPSU Politburo
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