U.S. Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense works to provide the United States' military forces needed to deter war and protect the security of the country.
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In 2011, former CIA director Leon PanettaLeon Panetta took over as Secretary of Defense from a retiring Robert Gates. At the same time, the U.S. took a lead role in orchestrating and participating in, along with 18 countries and 14 NATO allies, a military operation to support and protect civilians in Libya from Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi's attacks on the people of Libya. And, in May 2011, a number of United States military and intelligence agencies collaborated in the CIA-led assault on a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where a team of U.S. Navy Seals killed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.
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