While the Iraqi defense corps can provide a security umbrella, this is now a war requiring police, not soldiers, to track down bombers.

We're Japan's largest export market and we provide Japan with its security umbrella.

"The only realistic alternative for the Arabs to secure their interests is to have a security umbrella of their own," a high official said.

That is, whenever the government sought to justify something that it shouldn't have been doing it invoked the "national security" umbrella.

No longer feeling the need for Washington's security umbrella after the demise of the Soviet Union, the Europeans are increasingly speaking their mind.

Unless guaranteed a security umbrella against its strategic rivals, Iraq's interest in acquiring weapons of mass destruction would eventually revive.

The security umbrella for the Kurds in northern Iraq, however, would probably be maintained for a longer period, he said.

They know it will provide a security umbrella for the people who are members, and I think we need to continue to be involved in it.

The first is a security umbrella: a lightly armed and largely nuclear-free Japan has relied on the United States for its national defense.

Now the security umbrella may seem partly obsolete.