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Title

  • U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)

Summary

  • "The Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with national security and the United States Armed Forces. The Department is also the largest employer in the world, with 1.3 million active duty servicemen and women (as of 2015). Adding to the total is over 820 thousand National Guardsmen and Reservists from the four services, and over 740 thousand civilians bringing the total to over 2.8 million employees. It is headquartered at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C. The Department of Defense is headed by the Secretary of Defense, a cabinet-level head who reports directly to the President of the United States. Beneath the Department of Defense are three subordinate military departments: the United States Department of the Army, the United States Department of the Navy, and the United States Department of the Air Force. In addition, four national intelligence services are subordinate to the Department of Defense: the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Other Defense Agencies include the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), the Defense Security Service (DSS), and the Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA), all of which are under the command of the Secretary of Defense. Military operations are managed by nine regional or functional Unified Combatant Commands. The Department of Defense also operates several joint services schools, including the National Defense University (NDU) and the National War College (NWC)." -- Summary retrieved on October 7, 2019 http://dbpedia.org/resource/United_States_Department_of_Defense

Names

  • United States -- Department of Defense

Created / Published

  • United States.

Headings

  • -  Military and Naval Science
  • -  United States. Armed Forces
  • -  United States. Department of Defense
  • -  National security. United States
  • -  United States. Military policy

Genre

  • website

Form

  • electronic

Repository

  • Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20540 USA

Source Url

  • http://www.defenselink.mil/
  • http://www.defense.gov/news/
  • http://www.dod.gov/
  • https://www.defense.gov/
  • https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Listing/
  • https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/

Access Condition

  • None

Scopes

  • -  www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/ (domain)
  • -  www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Listing/ (domain)
  • -  www.defense.gov/Explore/News/ (domain)
  • -  defense.gov (domain)
  • -  www.dodlive.mil/ (domain)
  • -  www.dod.gov (domain)
  • -  www.defense.gov/news (domain)
  • -  www.defenselink.mil (domain)
  • -  www.flickr.com/photos/39955793@N07/ (domain)
  • -  www.youtube.com/thepentagonchannel (domain)
  • -  www.flickr.com/photos/secdef (domain)
  • -  www.flickr.com/photos/depsecdef (domain)
  • -  www.flickr.com/photos/thejointstaff/ (domain)
  • -  www.flickr.com/photos/vcjcs (domain)

Online Format

  • web page

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Chicago citation style:

United States. U.S. Department of Defense DoD. United States, 2001. Web Archive. https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0002762/.

APA citation style:

United States. (2001) U.S. Department of Defense DoD. United States. [Web Archive] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0002762/.

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United States. U.S. Department of Defense DoD. United States, 2001. Web Archive. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0002762/>.