Daultana also served as the federal parliamentary secretary for defence.

In 1959, (after Malyan independence), Thompson became permanent secretary for defence for Tun Abdul Razak (who later became Malayan prime minister).

- Eric Edelman, a former under secretary for defence in the Bush administration, outlines the case for a military strike to take out Iran's nuclear facilities, in an article he co-authored for Foreign Affairs magazine.

The German government on Oct. 14 condemned the operation as a violation of human rights, but did not endorse suggestions made by Gottfried Hennig, parliamentary state secretary for defence, that German military aid for Turkey might be embargoed.