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Ought the table to include the actual title of the post (in English for purposes of English wikipedia)? In UK alone there is the Secretary of State for Defence, and their junior Ministers of State. Also is the intention to include junior ministers or those with portfolios for particular aspects of defence/military affairs or are these just those who held their ministry's top job? In UK we have not yet had a female SofS for Defence but already two junior defence ministers (Anna Soubry and Penny Mordaunt).Cloptonson (talk) 09:28, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Date term began	Title of office	Name	Country
1975,1980–82	Minister of Defence	Indira Gandhi	India
1990–95	Minister of Defence	Elizabeth Rehn	Finland
1995–99	Minister of Defence	Anneli Taina	Finland
2002–04	Minister of Defence	Michelle Bachelet	Chile
2005–10	Minister of Defence	Nilda Garré	Argentina
2006–07	Minister of Defence	Vivianne Blanlot	Chile
2006–11	Minister of Defence	Cristina Fontes Lima	Cape Verde
2007–09	Minister of Defence	Vlasta Parkanová	Czech Republic
2007	Minister of Defence	Guadalupe Larriva González	Ecuador
2007	Minister of Defence	Lorena Escudero Durán	Ecuador
2007	(Acting) Minister of Defence	Marina Pendeš	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2007–2014	Secretary General of Defence with Rank of Minister	Ruth Tapia Roa	Nicaragua
2007	Minister of Defence	Yuriko Koike	Japan
2007–09	Minister of Defence	Cécile Manorohanta	Madagascar
2008–11	Minister of Defence	Carme Chacón i Piqueras	Spain
2008–10	Minister of Defence	Elsa Maria Neto D'Alva Texeira de Barros Pinto	São Tomé e Príncipe
2008–11 and 2015–16	Minister of Veterans' Affairs	Judith Collins	New Zealand
2008–10	Associate Minister of Defence	Heather Roy	New Zealand
2008–11	Minister of Disarmament and Arms Control	Georgina te Heuheu	New Zealand
2008–12	Minister of Defence	Ljubica Jelušič	Slovenia
2008–12	Minister of Defence	Rasa Juknevičienė	Lithuania
2009–13	Secretary of Homeland Security	Janet Napolitano	United States
2009–12	Minister of Defence and Veterans' Affairs	Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu	South Africa
2009–11	Minister of Defence	Bidhya Devi Bhandari	Nepal
2009–11	Minister of Defence	Angélique Ngoma	Gabon
2010–11	Minister of Defence	Gitte Lillelund Bech	Denmark
2010	(Acting) Minister of Defence and Security	Lesego Motsumi	Botswana
2010–13	Minister of Security	Nilda Garré	Argentina
2011	Minister of Defence	María Cecilia Chacón Chacón	Bolivia
2012–	Minister of Defence and Military Veterans	Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula	South Africa
2012–17	Minister of Defence	Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert	Netherlands
2012	Minister of Defence	Karolína Peake	Czech Republic
2013–17	Minister of Defence	Mimi Kodheli	Albania
2013–17	Minister of Defence	Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide	Norway
2013–15	Minister of Security	María Cecilia Rodríguez	Argentina
2013–2019	Minister of Defence	Ursula von der Leyen	Germany
2014–18	Minister of Defence	Roberta Pinotti	Italy
2015–18	Minister of Defence	Marise Payne	Australia
2015–	Minister of Security	Patricia Bullrich	Argentina
2016–18	Minister of Defence	Maria Dolores de Cospedal	Spain
2017–	Minister of Defence	Radmila Šekerinska	Republic of Macedonia
2017	Minister of Armed Forces	Sylvie Goulard	France
2017–	Minister of Armed Forces	Florence Parly	France
2017–18	Minister of Defence	Karla Šlechtová	Czech Republic
2018–19	Minister of Defence	Nirmala Sitaraman	India
2018–	Minister of Defence	Margarita Robles	Spain
2018–	Minister of Defence	Mariya Ahmed Didi	Maldives
2019–	Head of the Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports	Viola Amherd	Switzerland
2019–	Minister of Defence	Rose Christiane Raponda	Gabon
2019–	Minister of Defence	Lanelle Tanangada	Solomon Islands
2019	Secretary of State for Defence	Penny Mordaunt	United Kingdom
2019–	Minister for Defence	Linda Reynolds	Australia
2019–	Minister of Defence	Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer	Germany

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