ABBREVIATIONS
ABCCC
ACC
ADANS
AFCERT
AMC
ANO
AOC
ASAT
ASTERX
AT&T
ATO
AUTODIN
BCE
BDA
C/A
C2
C2IPS
C2W
C4ISR
CAFMS
CDC
Airborne battlefield command and control center
Air Combat Command
Airlift Deployment Analysis System
Air Force
Air Mobility Command
Abu Nidal Organization
Air Operations Center
Antisatellite
A commercial e-mail system used in CTAPS
American Telephone and Telegraph
Air Tasking Order
Automatic Digital Network
Before the common era
Battle damage assessment
Course acquisition
Command and control
Command and Control Information Processing
System
Command-and-control warfare
Command, control, communications, computing,
intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
Computer Assisted Force Management System
Centers for Disease Control
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CE
CEO
CEP
CFE
CINC
CNN
CONOP
CONUS
COTS
CRC
CRE
CSCE
CTAPS
CW
DEC
DFLP
DMS
DoD
DOT
DSB
EIW
ELINT
EO-IR
EU
EW
EZLN
FLTSATCOM
GAO
GCCS
GEO
GIA
GLONASS
The common era
Chief executive officer
Circular error probable
Conference on Forces in Europe
Commander in chief
Cable News Network
Concept of operation
Continental United States
Commercial off-the-shelf
Combat and Recording Center
Combat Reporting Element
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Contingency Theater Automated Planning System
Continuous wave
Digital Equipment Corporation
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Defense Message System
Department of Defense
U.S. Department of Transportation
Defense Science Board
Economic information warfare
Electronic intelligence
Electro-optical infrared
European Union
Electronic warfare
Zapatista National Liberation Army
Fleet Satellite Communications
U.S. General Accounting Office
Global Command and Control System
Geosynchronous orbit
Armed Islamic Group
A Russian system similar to GPS
Abbreviations
GPS
GVN
HIC
HMS
HPM
I&C
IADS
IBM
IBW
ICBMs
IG
ILP
IMINT
IP
ISR
JDAM
JFACC
JSTARS
JTIDS
KTO
LEO
LIC
MEII
MILSTAR
MOOTW
MRC
MTCR
MTW
NATO
NGO
NICON
NIPC
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Global Positioning System
Government of South Vietnam
High-intensity conflicts
His Majesty’s Ship (a British vessel)
High-power microwave
Information and communications
Integrated air defense system
International Business Machines
Intelligence-based warfare
Intercontinental ballistic missiles
Islamic Group
Islamic Liberation Party
Image intelligence
Internet Protocol
Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
Joint Direct Attack Munition
Joint Forces Air Component Commander
Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System
Joint Tactical Information Distribution System
Kuwait Theater of Operations
Low-earth orbit
Low-intensity conflicts
Minimum essential information infrastructure
Military Strategic and Tactical Relay System
Military operations other than war
Major regional conflict or contingency
Missile Technology Control Regime
Major theater war
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Nongovernmental organization
National Infrastructure Condition
National Infrastructure Protection Center
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NLF
NVA
OODA
OOTW
P
Pan Am
PBX
PCCIP
PFLP
PFLP-GC
PIJ
PLF
PLO
PRG
PSN
PSYOP
PSYW
R&D
Recce
RMA
S&T
SALT
SCADA
SFW
SIGINT
SIW
SNA
SOCOM
SONET
National Liberation Front
North Vietnamese Army
“Observe, orient, decide, act”—a sequence of
actions for fighter pilots to react more quickly
than the opponent (Chapter Six)
Operations other than war
Position code
Pan American Airlines
Private branch exchange
President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure
Protection
People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine
People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine–
General Command
Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Palestine Liberation Front
Palestine Liberation Organization
Provisional Revolutionary Government
Public switched network
Psychological operations
Psychological warfare
Research and development
Reconnaissance
Revolution in military affairs
Science and technology
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems
Sensor fuzed weapon
Signals intelligence
Strategic information warfare
Somalia National Alliance
Southern Command
Synchronous optical networks
Abbreviations
SPIN
SSBN
START
TADIL
TADIL–J
TARPS
TCO
TRADOC
TW/AA
UAV
UN
WCCS
WHO
WMD
WOC
Y2K
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Segmented, polycentric, ideologically integrated
network
Ballistic-missile submarines
Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
Tactical Data Information Link
Tactical Data Information Link-JTIDS
Tactical Aerial Reconnaissance Pod System
Transnational criminal organizations
U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command
Tactical warning and attack assessment
Unmanned aerial vehicle
United Nations
Wing command and control system
World Health Organization
Weapons of mass destruction
Wing Operations Center
Year 2000