The ZDF is designed primarily for external defense.

The country has no defense force and depends on Spain and France for external defense.

The army's geographic organization and distribution have continued to reflect a concern with internal rather than external defense.

Whoever had sold him the system had given him a pretty good household system, especially when tied into the first-floor precautions, and the external defenses.

Under his proposal Indonesia would continue to be responsible for the territory's external defense, foreign policy, parts of the judicial process and currency.

The Mexican Navy's stated mission is "to use the naval force of the federation for external defense, and to help with internal order".

Worf had found the palace's external defenses more than adequate, if hardly sufficient to repel a full-scale G'kkau invasion.

Many external mechanical defenses and large quantitative defenses are constitutive, as they require large amounts of resources to produce and difficult to mobilize.

Plants have many external structural defenses that discourage herbivory.

Except in the areas where the hull was damaged the ship had external defenses.