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The employment of limited offensive action and counterattacks to deny a contested area or position to the enemy. See also passive defense. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This protection includes active defense systems
against rogue meteors and nuclear weapons as well as environmental
projects such as spotting pollution with satellites and giant solar
orbiting collectors. In our opinion,
such long-range fire knock-out attacks against the enemy are supposed to
form the basis of countersubversive and antiterrorist active defense in
a modern combat operation. At the Quebec City Summit in 2001, for
example, leaders called for establishment of this Inter-American
Democratic Charter, which now exists, to promote the active defense of
representatives of democracy in our hemisphere. |
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