دفاع in English:

He trusted his defense attorney.

Attack is the best form of defense.

The Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System is also called DEERS.

Defense lawyers appealed for mercy.

The defense lawyer was confident that he would be able to answer the prosecutor's arguments in his rebuttal.

Shy people can develop drug dependence as a defense.

Many fear that cuts in the defense budget will undermine the military's effectiveness.

In American football the defense has a specific job.

I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.

Their defense came apart.

Our combined fleet broke through the enemy's defense zone.

Why was the Japan Defense Agency upgraded to the Japanese Ministry of Defense?

Appointing Cuddles the Bear to the position of Secretary of Defense was one of the defining mistakes of Dolly's brief career as president of the People's Democratic Republic of Tea Time.

The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of our island.