23 Fearsome Defense Ministry Logos From Around The World
July 28, 2007 | by Jefferson | Filed Under Design, Politics |
The guys over at Coming Anarchy have written an informative post about the logo of Japan’s newly-established Defense Ministry. The Japanese government had run a contest asking designers for logo submissions, and 767 responses came in. This was the winning logo:
Cool? Lame? Awe-inspiring? Too Web 2.0-ish? Does it suck? If you’re not sure whether it sucks or not, why not compare it to this sampling of Armed Forces/Defense Ministry/Department logos from around the world:
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The UK:
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The USA:
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Germany [Defense Forces]:
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Saudi Arabia:
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Ireland:
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Iran:
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South Korea:
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Russia:
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Australia:
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India:
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New Zealand:
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Italy:
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Norway:
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Ethiopia (photo by Risbo):
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South Africa:
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Brazil:
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Canada:
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Lithuania:
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The Netherlands:
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Croatia:
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Romania:
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Portugal:
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Know of any cool defense logos we didn’t mention in this post? We’d love to see them, so please share them with us in the comments section!
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Here’s the Swedish defense department logo: http://www.mil.se/
Lithuania is apparently defended by giant dogs with swords and colorful shields.
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The Netherlands: http://www.mindef.nl/binaries/2763_tcm15-27795.jpg
for canada, it depends. the department of national defence has the same sans-serif type plus canadian flag treatment as every other ministry.
however, the canadian forces do have a birds-n-swords logo:
http://www.pmfrc.org/images/CF_logo.jpg
Hi, that New Zealand Defence Department logo is just the generic NZ government one with a bit of text under it.
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The German logo shown above is actually the emblem of the country’s armed forces. The defense ministry itself has a rather generic logo resembling the flag, the ministry’s name and the German eagle (aka “fat hen”). See http://www.bmvg.de/portal/themes/html/bw_bmvg/images/logo_bmvg.gif
Norway’s logo is just the generic government logo, which is used by all departments: http://www.government.no/ . The Norwegian defence forces’ site is at http://www.mil.no/ and has a slightly different logo. It’s the national coat of arms with golden swords in the background. Very similar to the other ones discussed here.
This is the Danish Defence Ministry:
I don’t know what to thing of my own countrys logo… but the font is cool though!!!!
Comment to Swedens logo:
The name of the defence department would be translated to “DEFENCE POWER” which I think is pretty cool…
The India logo is actually the logo of the Government. It’s the seal of the India nation. The defense ministry logo is different (am looking for it)
A more complete Italian Defense logo can be found here:
http://www.difesa.it/SMD/Staff/Stemma/stemma-6×12.htm
A description of its parts can be found here:
http://www.difesa.it/SMD/Staff/Stemma/deduzioni-blasonatura.htm
You wouldn’t happen to know where I could find a larger version of that image, would you?
Do you know if there is a general NZ Armed Forces logo that I could replace it with?
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So we can see Japan wants the whole world under its control rather than mind their own business. It sucks.
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Proper NZ defence force logo at:
http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/images/logo.gif
Post updated with the new logo, thanks!
No wonder eagles are endangered, they’re all skewered on the defense logos.
Lithuania is just trying to hard: an armored pitbull carrying a sword and a shield with an armored and besworded knight on it.
Ireland, did Enya design that one? A bit new agey for the defense ministry.
The Saudi logo is actually that of the General Council on Civil Aviation (GACA) , a subset of the Ministry of Defense and Aviation. Finding the proper one seems to be difficult, I’ll keep looking.
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Croatian Ministry of Defence
http://www.morh.hr/iamps/Morh.gif
Japan’s logo makes their quest for world domination a bit obvious, but at least on the surface it looks benign enough to maintain good PR (if they made a “angry bird holding weapons” logo, China and South Korea would likely riot).
But out of all these logos, the Netherlands’ logo is definitely the GAYEST of all government emblems. It’s not defense, it’s Defensie! It looks like the logo for an Internet startup!
The Irish one looks like one of those God-awful illustrations Louis le Brocquy did for The Tain book.
The Dutch Defensie was graphically the best with its reassuringly male upthrusting arrow, but they didn’t really do that well the last few times around. So, I gotta go with Ireland because it’s a guy and a spear or something and kind of unsure of itself. Yeah, reassuring but vague or spiritual or cosmic or something.
Thanks!
Romania:
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/1/17/180px-Stema_MAPN.JPG
anyone know why the Italian defence logo needs TWO fiery pots?
So we can see Japan wants the whole world under its control rather than mind their own business. It sucks.
Because all those other countries are so sweet and peaceful. All those eagles and gryphons must be, like, ready to jump up and make you some toast. That must be what the swords/knives are for.
Ireland has the best of the bunch. It’s great that they went with something artistic and unusual rather than one that looks like all the others.
I’m not surprised that the commonwealth countries generally have a riff on the UK one. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India were all part of the British Empire)… But it makes for a pretty boring comparison.
The Irish one is both a harp and a warrior with a shield and Spear (Finn?)… Unfortunately the shield almost looks like a breast.
Z.
If that’s the Japanese Ministry of Defense, what does their Ministry of the Environment look like?!
Maybe it’s an angry bird holding a weapon.
bloody hell… the german logo still looks like 1914, or worse 1939. maybe they should change the black to pink for a start ; )
The german logo displayed is not actually the Logo used by the ministry of defence, but the one used by the “Bundeswehr”, meaning the actual troops. The Logo of the ministry of defence can be found here.
The complete logo for the Bundeswehr here.
Portuguese Ministry of Defense
The Israeli Ministry of Defense Logo, generic and modern, like Japan’s. Here’s the Israeli Defense Forces logo for comparison. A sword, but no birds! It does have an olive branch wrapped around the sword, instead.
You left Portugal off of your vote list thingy.
portugal!
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The reason why the German logo “still looks like 1914″ is that the logo shown here probably *is* from 1914. As a previous commenter mentions, the cross is only used by the troops themselves nowadays, and in a much less 1914-looking fashion.
The German ministry of defense has a logo that looks much like all the other ministries in Germany: A “federal eagle” next to a small black-red-gold flag and the German words “Federal Ministry of Defense”.
The worst one would probably be The Netherlands. It looks like a design student spent 2 minutes learning how to use vectors in Photoshop.
I had to vote for Portugal. “Yeah, yeah, your birds look all fierce, until they get eaten by our freakin’ DRAGON, which most likely breathes FIRE, too. Who needs feathers when you have giant armored scales? And it can fly, so all of you lame eagles and hawks and whatever better watch out! Portugal’s got dragons!”
Ok, not sure about the dots on the shield…maybe the dragon eats those to power up enough to eat lame design students…
On the planet GH7tf is a country called Earthless, now there’s a defense logo that rocks balls to the wall. Unfortunately, GH7tf’s interwebs were ironically done in by its inventor’s inconvenient truth, global warming, so no link.
The Dutch Defense logo is based on the idea of the 4 different army divisions working together for freedom & peace. The 4 divisions you can see in the four lines which join into a blue arrow (blue is associated with UN peacekeeping color). Orange is the national color, and together the blue, white + orange resemble the colors of the Dutch flag. I think it’s pretty clever.
Ireland ? Are U Kidding ? That’s lame, dude. UK ’s posh, I wouldn’t hesitate to admit, although I’m German…
Defensie!
That logo is absolutely terrible. How does any of that mean defense? It looks more like a new social networking website logo than a branch of any governing body. Although, it is Japan, so who knows what they’re thinking. Maybe their idea is to defend their country from myspace stalkers.
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In addition to the baller dragon, I like Portugal’s motto (We’re from the West). Obvious? sure. Worth mentioning? Why not?
Also, the south african one is wrong too. That symbol is the national coat of arm
What the heck does Canada need a defense department for? Rogue beavers? Pissed off moose? Renegage eskimos?
Great Collection ! And your humor in taking the very old german war sign inspires me and calling it “Germany” is really great work no cheap english trash press could do better !
The Netherlands looks like a soccer club logo
you forgot poland!
http://www.twierdzamodlin.pl/grafiki/mon_logo.jpg
Yeah, I’m not understanding the draw to Irelands “harp thingie.” If not the German logo, I’d have chosen Russia’s. You can certainly tell which countries have been at war and which countries hired some ridiculous modern artist to come in and draw some fluffy-ass colourful line drawing which looks NOTHING like what you’d expect a DEFENSE logo to look like. Some of them look like failed Olympics logos, like something you’d see on a cheap t-shirt.
Geez.
I find the symbolism in these very interesting. Most feature an eagle or something else symbolizing freedom or vigilance. Most also feature some form of weapon. Many have an olive branch incorporated somewhere for peace. Sometimes it is given equal or greater status than the weapons, but sometimes it is very subtle. There are also a lot of anchors to show naval dominance. One even incorporates a cross, although, it’s unclear weather is to be enforced or preserved. The new Japanese logo feels happy like the defense ministry (green ring) is hugging the world with Japan (the green rising sun?) on top of it all. Not sure if that is at all accurate, as I’m not up on Japanese culture. Anyone else have any ideas?
There’s clearly a bit of font-substitution going on in the image of the Norwegian defense logo. The line of English text, “The Ministry of Defence,” is in Adobe Serif, which only appears when there’s a font missing in a file. A few years ago, it would have appeared as badly spaced Courier. So we’re not seeing this particular logo as it’s meant to be seen.
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All the logos featuring the eagle and crossed swords are members of the Commonwealth, and therefore ex-members of the British Empire.
Belgium :
http://www.west-vlaanderen.be/jahia_images/defensie.jpg
Text below the logo translates as “Powerful in peace”
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GO GO PORTUGAL !
i could swear most of those countries are outsourcing this project to one person…eagle ..sword..*sigh*….however lol go netherlands !…A for effort……did the designer give 10 bux to his “l33t” teenage brother..who do an all nighter ..then realised he doesnt have any editing software so he used the default microsoft paint?..is that how the story goes?
Portugal’s is awesome. I mean come on, a dragon? Who wants to mess with that?… Looks like it could be the symbol for Ministry of Magic in Harry Potter.
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Also note the star, the bird, dragon and star’s symbolgy all point to a higher order above the individual nations. But that would be madness, wouldn’t it?
I like The Finnish defense ministry. Besides, it too has a dragon.
Wow! Didn’t know that Ethiopia had a defense ministry , I would have thought theirs would have been crossed spears over a Red Cross care package. Portugal Rocks! Gotta give props to Germany the Iron Cross is simple, clean and classic. Brazil looks like a Christmas wreath. Norway looks like a wine bottle lable. The Netherlands and Saudi Arabia look like company logos. And Irelands is a childrens finger paint rendering of a Chinese alphabet character.
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Did the ACLU approve the crosses in those logos? I thought we had separation of church and state rules.
http://www.mnd.gov.tw/english/Publish.aspx?cnkw=faq
Finland. Lion logo
How is Ireland currently #2 in voting? And how does Canada have a better defense ministry logo than the US, a country with an actual defense?
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Lithuania
small country with big lion+sword, kinda go “FUCK YOURSELF”
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malaysia boleh!!!
omg! the japanese logo looks like they are thinking of world domination again!!!
Thats not lion, but iron wolf. Charekter from old lithuanian legend
Look at all logos with weapons, only Lithuania have logo with swords who are horizontal (means “defend”) in other logos spers, arows and swords are rised up or /\. That have to mean something
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The Japanese one looks pretty lame in my opinion. It’s got that fake web 2.0 look too it and wouldn’t be possible to make into a real pin or something physical other than just printing it out. Plus it looks better suited for an environmental organization, but that’s just see.
Canada has laserswords? Awesome!
i think it might be easier to vote which is the worse…
http://www.lebarmy.gov.lb/?ln=en
Pretty Pictures…
Japan ran a contest to select the new logo for their Ministry of Defense. You’d think there’d be samurai swords and ninjas, cherry blossoms and rising suns, right? Nope. Instead, they selected some new-age tree-hugging-ish soda pop logo. Absolutely s…
The Netherland Self defense logo is the best.
Why doesn’t everybody be honest and rename all of them “Ministry of Attack”. Nobody ever defends themselves anymore, they’re all too busy attacking other nations in order to foster business interests.
The portugal logo is cool, its got a freaking dragon!
The irish is very good when you consider the historical significance of the fianna warriors and their spears and shields, very symbolic, compared to say the Japanese one!!
Jesus that Dutch one sucks harder than George Michael on the floor of a cubicle. I think the poster who stated that you could guess who were seasoned war-pro’s got it spot on. Where is France’s? Nearly sure it has a picture of a white-flag factory on it’s emblem…
Go Ireland!! The Irish Defence Ministry logo is the best logo, now question. Unlike the unimaginative japanese logo, statementless German logo and Portugeese logo with no link to Portugal’s culture! The Irish logo shows Ireland’s great history of warfare from the fenian warriors to the celts to the vikings to the normans while at the same time showing what it is for and at the same time being modern and classy. An innovative new modern logo perfect for Ireland’s modern and small elite military! COME ON EVERYBODY! VOTE IRELAND!!! VOTE IRELAND!!!
Stephen - you will find that The US “defence forces” are not too popular abroad, probably because unlike the Irish Defence Forces their primary role is not defence… They might be small but in almost a century of the Irish Volunteers (Óglaigh na hÉireann)a unit has never surrendered in battle. So spare me your arrogance and ignorant opinions on other countries armed forces.
The Irish one says it all… “Give us peace…we mean it”
I have to say for a while i thought they where all the same crown two swords with some sort of foliage around the edge ( United Kingdom,Canada and the others ) the most imaginative has to be Ireland you have all aspects of Irish culture ( which will be an Island of Ireland soon ) well done Ireland - Vote Ireland - no crown or swords
eddie has obviously never heard of te Seige of Jadotville. I recommend he gain some knowledge of A Coy, 35 Inf Bn, ONUC, in 1961.
I vote for cool Ireland
I vote for Ireland
Mark,The Siege of Jadotville,
The initial attack occurred while many of the Irish troops were attending Mass. Expecting that the men would be unarmed during Mass, the first attackers moved rapidly in. They were quickly repelled by light machine-gun fire which alerted the entire company to the threat. This set the stage for a three-day battle. A combined force of mercenaries and Belgians with local tribesmen attacked the 150 Irish soldiers, who had, for the most part, just light personal weapons and they held off a force in excess of 4000 armed with a mix of light and medium armament for several days. No Irishmen died though several were wounded and over 55 attackers died in the siege.
Don’t forget the Battle of At-Tiri.
In At-Tiri Irish troops withstood an attempt by Israeli-backed forces under the command of Major Saad Haddad to expel UN peacekeepers from that village. This was a significant event in the history of the Irish Battalion in Lebanon. The incident cost the life of one Irish soldier, Private Stephen Griffin, and indirectly led to the murders of Privates Thomas Barrett and Derek Smallhorne a number of days later. They stopped a certain massacre of innocent civilians.
Eireann go braugh. (IRELAND FOREVER)
Robert: Don’t worry, I know all about Jadotville. I was referring to Eddie’s statement that the Irish army has never surrendered in battle.
Ptes Barrett and Smallhorne were murdered by Mohammed Bazi.
Vote for either Ireland (the best of the lot) or Canada (so they will finish higher than the USA)
Some of the above images are government departments whereas others are military organisations. The Irish logo is of the department of Defence, but the Defence Forces have a different symbol with tradition dating back to before the foundation of the modern Irish state.
God Save Ireland!(and its great new logo)
Gotta be Ireland, it blends our national symbol; the harp with an olden days soldier, simple but lost of meaning behind it
irish logo— the harp is the symbol of ireland for those that were wondering what was going on in the logo
Irish and Polish logos are the best. I hope one of them will win.
Well, I’ll go for Lithuania as it is one of the few to have a shield (i.e. defensive) as opposed to a sword (i.e. offensive). What is it defence departments and birds, btw? Do they have some sort of eagle fetish?
Also, being Irish, I have to comment on this “Irish Military tradition” people are going on about here. The reason we spent 1000 years under English/British rule is precisely because we never manage to organise a Military capable of: a) expelling them and b) keeping them expelled. Personally, I think we should follow Costa Rica’s example and scrap the Defence forces…
How dare you Paul R! I am a proud member of the Irish Defence Forces, I have served in Lebanon and Bosnia under UN Peacekeeping operations and I completely reject your claims that the Irish Military should be disbanded. Its madness! Ireland’s military hasn’t been as strong since the Civil War. Ireland’s military is a beacon of humanity in a world of evil. Ireland’s troops are deployed across the world under the UN protecting the innocent and rebuilding the lives of those effected by confict. The Irish Military is a force of peace and has never engaged in acts of aggression, a model force commited to protecting the defenceless where ever they may be. So vote Ireland! IRELAND’S MILITARY IS A FORCE OF GOOD AND PEACE, ARE ICON IS THE COOLEST, SYMBOLISES OUR HERITAGE AND IS THE MOST INNOVATIVE SO… VOTE IRELAND!!!!
My votes with Ireland! The Irish Military is a force of TRUE peace, it has never acted in aggression and devotes its troops to UN Missions abroad (Lebanon, Bosnia, Kosovo, Liberia, Afghanistan etc.) helping to rebuild the lives of those affected by war and natural disasters while also protecting the innocent when there is no one else to protect them. It has made many sacrifices to the cause of peacekeeping and has lost many troops in the pursuit of peace across the world.
Vote for Ireland, Vote For Peace!
Nobody can deny that the Irish one is the most artistic and historic one of the lot. I think its cool, then again - I am Irish myself so I have favourites.
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Irish
Thank you
Some piss poor efforts, esp the Dutch, Hard to credit they used to be a nation to be reckoned with.
Dunno how the Irish design is doing so well (short of organised voting) its pretty weak, though that maybe reflects the nations military capability. Canada clearly ripped off the UK design!
The Croatian logo looks like something you’d stick on a beer bottle.
Re: Ireland’s military capability. The Irish don’t win wars because they don’t wage them. However they are one of the few that can win peace, something the larger militaries the world over should learn about.
The Irish defence forces for the win. I think I have tears in my eyes I’m so proud!
Not a Design Expert you wonder why the Irish design is doing so well - maybe because it is the best designed. It is a blend of tradition and modern. It contains the symbol of Ireland - the harp, and also a warrior holding a shield and a spear. You say that it is weak and that it reflects the nations military capability. Ireland is a neutral country. Its military are more interested in Peace keeping missions abroad. Ireland does not go to war because of some hidden agenda like the US / UK / Australia etc etc.
Ireland has the best logo for how it looks and what it symbolizes….
The Irish have been happily waging war since 1798. It may not have been done through what is considered to be a legitimate defence force, but it has been doing it since then quite succesfully (i.e. the founding of the free state, good Friday agreement and so on). It’s latest reincarnation happens to be the P.I.R.A. The official defence force will forever be an insignifigant blip in comparison to a real army that influences the nation south and north of the border.
Hi
Mark I would not consider Jadotville a surrender. They fought to the end, until both water and ammo was completely used up. Professionals trained in many bigger european armies were completely unable to dislogde them using force. Relief from others in the UN consisted of ignoring them or sending in air lifted water that was in uncleaned fuel drums, which was undrinkable. I am actually very proud of the service given in the Congo and Jadotville in particular. Despite the useless leadership given at a political in the UN level at the time. If all UN service was as selfless there would be far fewer prolems around the world today.
Mark- some army, you have no guns…
United32. You’re factually incorrect. 1798 and all since has not been waging war. It was defending against those who chose to wage a war. It was defense against the would-be oppressors. Those involved did not invade a foreign land. That was the other side.
Yeah United32, the Irish army doesn’t wage war. When the Irish want to take over somewhere, we simply emigrate and outbreed the existing population until we are in control. The army has nothing to do with ti.
Its a peaceful and much more fun way of taking over a country.
united- dont think there were too many non catholics in PIRA, they are more like the run on from the peep o day boys or the defenders than the United Irish men. Many of the main movers in 1798 were non sectarian and non catholic . PIRA had many short coming in that department. The rest of us might not be perfect, but I dont think following PIRAs example will get us any closer to be “united”. By the way the “offical” forces were the IRA in 1918 not PIRA which came much later from a split within a split and never had more than a samll minority of support. The legimacy of our forces comes from our own democracy not want anybody elses thinks of us…
Hey brim4brim that’s hillarious and true. Very well pointed out. As regards to the coment by Joseph Blake, it is you Mr. Blake who is incorrect. Historically, the people ‘who chose to wage war against us’ as you describe them were in fact the legitimate government of Ireland. This was put in to statute through the crown of Ireland act 1542. As the vast majority of Gaelic chieftans accepted this anybody who fought against the legitimate government of the day (i.e. the crown) would be described as terrorists, using todays terminology. There was in FACT no war waged by the crown of England. War was however waged against the crown by anyone who chose to use violence or agression against it.
Eddie, firstly I never made any reference to any particular religon of any of the organisations who have fought for the nation of Ireland. The fact that you make reference to this, shows that you are trying to distort my argument, which in fact makes very logical sense. As regards the P.I.R.A. and being united, this particular organisation has made more of an impression on this objective than any other organisation in Ireland. This includes Fianna Fail and our defence forces. Remember the Good Friday agreement is directly linked to the impression that the P.I.R.A. had on the government of Britain. Anybody who thinks differently is a fool. The I.R.A. of 1918 were not the official force of Ireland, they were a haphazard organisation fighting against the legitimate forces of the state, the Queen or King of England. The I.R.A. were the peoples army. It so happens that the official I.R.A. was superseeded by the P.I.R.A. therefore all legitimacy as the peoples army was surrendered to this new organisation. You can never make reference to how much support an illegal organistaion has as it is only speculation. This stands true for both the I.R.A. and the P.I.R.A.
Finally in reference to the legitimacy of our forces coming from our democracy, the Irish constitution in article 3 states the fact that the Irish people want a nation of Ireland, in so many words, and therefore as part of this territory is occupied by an aggressor it calls in to question legitimacy and sovereignty and the right of any free state governement to appoint a ‘legitimate’ defence force.
For those that said the irish logo isn’t the defence forces logo but the Department of Defence (yes you lord charlie), can they explain to me why the body and head of the warrior looks like an “i”. Why the third string of the harp and the shield, looks like a “D”. And why the spear and the hand holding it looks like an “f”? To me the logo clearly incorporates the letters “IDF”
United 32 - Your points have some truth, however the Volunteers in 1918 did place themselves under the service of the people after the all Ireland election of that year which gave their stated aim alot of credibility. During the troubles the provisionals never even had a majority of the nationalist vote in the 6 counties so it is safely to guess at their support levels. I believe this is because they were too agressive and destructive to the country at large and too willing to target civilians. Vocal criticism was not well recieved.
As far as I am concerned the IRA were the offical force in 1918 because the Dail said they were and it was drawn from all parts of the Island in as much as circumstances at the time allowed that election to be.
I am not suggesting that you were sectarian in your comments or are in fact so. But the lack of any imvolvement in your national organisation of such a large minority who were and are otherwise represented is a huge weakness. You propose build a new country for the people, but ignore their expressed wishes in vote after vote. People like me would be put against a wall by PIRA if they were running the country, because I stringly disagree. You scare too much to inspire.
The fact that the British paid heed to PIRA does not make them morally right. No more than the treaty made the free state army legitimate. I am more worried what fellow Irish people think than foreigners and frankly PIRA is far more constructive and influential now without arms than any bomb ever made it.
I believe anyone on the Island has an equal right to serve in the Army, however the disruption of that right does not allow others to set up new armies and claim they too are legitimate. Otherwise we end up in chaos. As I said originally the 26 county state is not perfect but its not that bad either and its good building block to work on. By your arguement RIRA, INLA, PIRA, the Defence Forces and CIRA all have equal rights to legitimacy regardless of who runs them or how answerable they are to who they claim to selve…
C’mon Ireland!
We do not have an offensive army but one that only does peace keeping.
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It made the fuckin news!!!
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I like Ireland’s.
Who knew so much work went into creating govt. dept logos?
Ireland’s logo is ridiculous. It looks like a guy in a wheelchair trying to climb a flagpole. Germany and Russia have much cooler logos.
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Anyone else think the Saudi Arabia one looks more like an airliner logo?
I was able to recreate a few of these logos using a website http://www.freelogoservices.com They actually came out pretty good.
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Just to be clear: do not confuse the intentions of the civilian government with the performance of the service. In other words, don’t knock a country’s military just because the elected numbskulls send them to crazy missions. In defense of the American military, they trust and obey their civilian Congress and their civilian Commander in Chief. Baby and bathwater, etcetera.
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Germany’s logo is the neatest because of history. Faught almost single handedly two world wars against the best of the best -so in a Pavlovian way it photographically creates a response. But in itself it’s not impressive.
Russia’s logo says “IMPERIAL COSSACKS AND WAR DOGS APPRAOCHING” all over it. Makes you want to take your own life before they get here!
Please add Turkish General Staff TGS to the list.
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A message of the representative of God
IN THE NAME OF ALLAH THE MOST BENEFICIENT AND THE MOST MERCIFUL
Allah/ God/ Bhagwan/ Buddha bless you,
I am a representative of God, giving you a clarion call that everything including human being belongs to God or Almighty Allah or Bhagwan or Buddha etc. All good activities are accounted for God and bad activities are accounted for the Satan, Devil, Rakshas, etc. Now being representative of God, Almighty Allah, Bhagwan etc. I have caught the Devil, Satan, Rakshas, etc. Kindly you are requested to contact me immediately so that I can deliver you the same.
The Momineens, the believers of Hazrat Imam Hussain (A.S.) of the world have decided to build gigantic and grandiose city presenting an edifice of humanity and tranquility, peace and love, supplication and consummation for the All-Forgiver and All-Merciful showering upon the people His bounties and blessings since the creation of first man on earth Adam (A.S.) and this Adam (A.S.), the first father of human being was firstly challenged by the Satan mardood that this creature of God shall be spoiling, devastating and rummaging through the planet earth.
But, the Almighty Allah, the All-knower challenged the Satan mardood that he is not that kind of wise as Allah is so shall he be expelled from his court of blessing and forgiveness after having been defeated from the court of Allah. The Satan mardood decided to challenge the human being by making him/her more adaptable towards the bad deeds including the first murder on the planet earth to the developing of mass destruction weapons. So the man, so fragile and subtle becomes the escape-goat of the Satan mardood. Since the first murder of Adam’s son by his own brother and the continuity of the same is still on and on in the shape of making man enemy to man with no fear of God and disturb the whole peace and the tranquility on this planet earth by inventing fighter jets and B-2 bombers, suicide bombers and all other inhuman activities stretching from theft to murder.
Now Almighty Allah/ God has decided to present Himself on planet earth by putting the ground breaking ceremony of the projected city of Qasar-e-Hussain located in Lahore, Pakistan, Earth Planet; which shall be the standing Exaltation of Allah in the form of Imam Hussain (A.S.) preaching place entailing hospitals, colleges, universities, airports, sky-scrappers, motorways, subways, seven star hotels and what not. All presenting the grandiosity, magnanimity and magnificence of Almighty Allah for his poors, dejected, desperate, destitute, forlorn and poverty stricken humans on the earth planet first time in the history of human beings and in this great cause The Design Constructions has joined hands with us to give this grand project a practical shape.
Thus by throwing lights on the certain characteristics and the parameters of the new city on the earth planet shall be the embodiment of Allah’s Greatness and Vanity. Now by putting the pinnacle of Allah on the planet earth shall be the final nail in the coffin of Satan or Devil or Rakshas etc. From onwards no Satan or Devil shall ever be daring to disturb the echo system of God.
Look at the concept, you all shall cooperate with us to build this magnificent piece of Allah’s Architect on the Planet Earth. Undoubtedly Allah is the best Architect in the universe. Now we say that the Satan or Devil is doing his level best to finish this grand project of Allah as soon as possible so all the people, the figure is 5 billion plus, are once again challenged by the Devil, so we request all of the human beings irrespective of their religions, beliefs, sects, tribes, colors, sex and creeds to come forward and marshel together as an army of loveable and adorable people of Earth Planet to give a blowing defeat to the army of the Satan or Devil. This exemplary innihilation of the Satan mardood shall be another living example like Pharaoh, who also challenged God one times through his sky-high pyramids, so this is the Wrath and Exuberance of Almighty Allah on the inhabitants of the Earth Planet.
After having this brief introduction every peace loving human is invited to contribute his/her means of resources of whatever nature for the preservation and restoration of the poverty stricken, socially and economically crippled, highly unsecured, and also in the presence of human bombs, nuclear bombs and heavy armaments of any kind with no fear of Wrath of God. Initially this project is being started with thousands of kanals (1 Marla=225 sq. yards, 1 kanal=20 marlas), and shall be extended to millions of kanals because every thing belongs to Allah including Earth Planet
So if we say this projected grand city is a peaceful shelter/ home for all the peace loving human beings on the Earth Planet shall not be a wrong concept by the representative of Allah. So come on it’s a clarion call to all NGO’s, Governments and all other institutions which are preaching and practicing for the peace and tranquility of this Planet Earth are once again called upon to join hand to hand with this representative of Allah to make this Planet Earth more peaceful and beautiful by harnessing and clogging the Satan or Devil.
Now we let you know the people of earth planet that deweaponization is desatanization, denuclearization is de-devilization, antitheftism is antisatanism, likewise entailing the success of good qualities and failure of all the Satanic/ Devilish characteristics from the Planet Earth, also save from the volleys of terrorism, deglobalization, hunger, poverty, injustice and inequality to make this earth more peaceful and tranquil to live on this planet. So we conclude that the emancipation of all the human beings is based upon the harnessing and catching of the Satan or Devil.
Thanking you,
Representative of Allah
SYED ALI ABID BOKHARI
Contact:
+92 332 479 8279
+92 323 535 9884
+92 303 552 3782
+92 343 450 1606
www.qasarehussain.com
info@qasarehussain.com
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A message of the representative of God
In The Name of Allah The Beneficent, the Merciful
Allah/ God/ Bhagwan/ Buddha bless you,
For the perpetuity, susceptibility and maintainability of earth planet and to wash away the long long irreparable and impregnable damages or losses to the planet earth every man living on the earth planet is wishing and desiring very conscientiously that why he has been predestined to the unforeseen worries of suicide bombing, nuclear threats, disrespect to humanity, dishonesty, adulteration, bribery, and what not vices carried out by the Devil, Satan etc., on the earth planet. Shall it be possible for the human being who been very weak and fragile ever be in the position to clear himself alone from the mess of vices spreading around this earth planet. It is not possible individually but commonly possible, then who would dare to lead the army of humans who are desirous of peace and tranquility on this planet earth, definitely, anyone of you can do it. Living on this planet earth it could be the President of America, Mr.George W. Bush, or the President of any country of the world including the President of Pakistan, Mr. Pervaiz Musharraf. Also, any individual living in slum area or any individual living in the skyscraper or living in the most beautiful palace on this earth planet since its creation.
Now you have to decide since you are the master of your destiny either you decide to go with the Army of Humanity and Tranquility i.e Allah, God, Baghwan, Buddha etc. or the army of the gun totters, nuclear mounted launchers or so much so the suicide bombers or violent persons living on this earth planet . Moreover, I have put the ball into your court to get an answer from your conscience of whatsoever nature and; therefore, kindly intimate me through the same mail and the contact numbers given on the website. If answer is yes then fine, and if not then I shall pray to Allah, God, Baghwan, Buddha, etc. to come on this planet earth and assist us. I would rather pray to Allah, God, Baghwan, Buddha, etc. or whatsoever to whom you worship to come down and fight with the Satanic or Devilish forces who are ruling upon the brains of the five billion plus people living on this earth planet and give crushing defeat to the enemies of peace, humanity, and tranquility on this land of destitutes, poors, poverty-stricken subjects, forlorns, etc.
So, this is the challenge I give to all the Evil Forces living on the earth planet to fight with the Powers of Allah, God, etc. and that would subjugate and rope their unbridled horses which are busy in trampling the peace and tranquility of the planet earth. Thus, there is an open announcement of Armageddon between the forces of Allah, God, etc. and the forces of the Satan, Devil etc. The result of this grand some Battle will show whether this representative of Allah is right or wrong.
By the Grace of my All-Mighty Allah, the Army of Allah, God, etc. will give a mind shattering and mind boggling defeat and humiliating retreat to the army of the evil forces led by the Satan, Devil, etc. They will not even get a small space for their refugee on this earth planet, which is made for peace and love. Since every human being is a peace loving and desiring for peace and tranquility including all the governments of the world on this earth planet.
Thanking you,
Representative of Allah
SYED ALI ABID BOKHARI
Contact:
+92 332 479 8279
+92 323 535 9884
+92 303 552 3782
+92 343 450 1606
www.qasarehussain.com
info@qasarehussain.com
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hello my Brothers and sister
Greetings to you in Jesus name from Good Hope India
Ministries
My name is pastor Lawrence and iam from India
Iam not educated since my parents left me in my child
hood
From that small age onwards I had no proper guidance
for my education
and for my livelihood.now my age is 30 years and I got
married when
iam 23.and her name is Stella.
Iam so sorry to say that we had no childrens, as
doctors said that we
cant have any kids .
And then when iam 23 I started to repent of all my
sins and accepted
Christ as saviour. and with hope and faith iam praying
and seeking
Gods guidance for my life to be blessed
Since I did not studied and don’t know how to read and
write
properly, I used to hear the Word of God by the great
pastors and then
one day God lead me to have one great thinking….. that
is..” my child
iam here for you, u bless the poor people with the
good education,
even though u don’t know I am the God for you who woll
lead u and
guide you and bless you and make u to wlak in the
light….
And then I strated to pray and iam 23 year of my age..
and then I
thought that, and dedicated my life to God by serving
Him, sicne I am
not educated, God only made me to learn little English
and how to type
and write. Then I got the heart that to educate the
poor people and
people who ahd no education and then I started to buy
some tracks,
bibles, books,materials and then I used to give freely
to the people
who are very poor
And who are unable to study… in such a way I started
to do my work for
God in helping the poor for to study, sicne iam not
studied and I
don’t want the poor pople to be lkiie me but want to
make them to
study and then help in by giving tracks, matertials.
And when iam 25 of my age I registered the misnitry
name as Good Hope
India Ministries. And ima the founder of President of
this misnitry
and we had some misnitry members and my wife as well
with heartfully
encourages me and guide me in doing the Gods work…..
and also iam poor
person in which I cant feed my family, even then..
since I gave my
life to God , by doing some part time work and earning
a very little
money and with that money feeding my family very hard
and then helping
the poor people by distributing the tracks and sending
the emails to
so many people begging for the tracks and for the
bibles and for the
materials of the bible and begging them to help and by
our GHI
Minsitries we all workers are working going to remote
palces and
serving the lord, praying and giving the tracks and
praying and
telling the Love of Lord Jesus and helping them and
give some food
,materials…..this was all work in this last days in
India
My main aim and destiny is to have the Library, church
and Orphanage
Even though I ahd no power. But with faith in my life
it was my aim
for to make the people to study in Library freely and
I want so mnay
biblical materils, tracks so that I can have the room
like a library
and then serving the people who are wiling to learn
about Jesus and
love of Him Amen.
Our Misnitry Prayer requests:
Need prayers for Library
Need prayers for Orphanage
Need prayers for church
Need prayer for my family livelihood
Need prayers for tracks, materials, bibles, toys
If you are willing to send any donations, any help ,
any tracks, any
books, any clothes, any materils and any bibles, we
will heartfully
recivce them and then supply those to poor people and
kids and food
materials.
My contact information
Pastor G.Lawrence
Good Hope India Ministries
Dr no;7-5-63,Opp ASN Collage,
Ithanagar Road, Tenali, Guntur(dst),
Andhra pradesh, Pincode:522201
My emails: pastor_lawrence2002@yahoo.co.in ,
good.hopeindia@gmail.com
, pastor_lawrence2002@hotmail.com
good_hopeindia99@yahoo.co.in
We will be praying for you all and for your blesigns
of this small misnitry
Thanking you
In His service
With love Lawrence/India
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How dare you Paul R! I am a proud member of the Irish Defence Forces, I have served in Lebanon and Bosnia under UN Peacekeeping operations and I completely reject your claims that the Irish Military should be disbanded. Its madness! Ireland’s military hasn’t been as strong since the Civil War. Ireland’s military is a beacon of humanity in a world of evil. Ireland’s troops are deployed across the world under the UN protecting the innocent and rebuilding the lives of those effected by confict. The Irish Military is a force of peace and has never engaged in acts of aggression, a model force commited to protecting the defenceless where ever they may be. So vote Ireland! IRELAND’S MILITARY IS A FORCE OF GOOD AND PEACE, ARE ICON IS THE COOLEST, SYMBOLISES OUR HERITAGE AND IS THE MOST INNOVATIVE SO… VOTE IRELAND!!!!
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All the logos featuring the eagle and crossed swords are members of the Commonwealth, and therefore ex-members of the British Empire.
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