Glossary
| A | airborne | |
| AAI | Africa-America Institute | |
| AAR | after-action review | |
| AC | Active Component | |
| ACDI/VOCA | Agricultural Cooperative Development International/ Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance | |
| ACofS | Assistant Chief of Staff | |
| ACRI | African Crisis Response Initiative | |
| ADP | automated data processing | |
| ADRA | Adventist Development and Relief Agency | |
| ADSW | active duty for special work | |
| ADT | active duty for training | |
| AED | Academy for Educational Development | |
| AFSC | American Friends Service Committee | |
| AICF/USA | Action Internationale Contre La Faim (International Action Against Hunger, United States of America) | |
| AJWS | American Jewish World Service | |
| AKF | Aga Khan Foundation | |
| AMURT | Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team | |
| ANERA | American Near East Refugee Aid | |
| antiterrorism | Defensive measures used to reduce the vulnerability of individuals and property to terrorist acts, to include limited response and containment by local military forces. (JP 1-02) | |
| AO | area of operations | |
| AOR | area of responsibility | |
| AR | Army regulation | |
| ARC | American Refugee Committee | |
| area assessment | The commander's prescribed collection of specific information that commences upon employment and is a continuous operation. It confirms, corrects, refutes, or adds to previous intelligence acquired from area studies and other sources prior to employment. (JP 1-02) | |
| ARNG | Army National Guard | |
| ARPERCOM | Army Personnel Command | |
| ARSOF | Army special operations forces | |
| ASCC | Army Services Component Command | |
| ASD (ISA) | Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs | |
| ASG | area support group | |
| AT | annual training | |
| BFWI | Bread for the World Institute | |
| BWA | Baptist World Alliance | |
| C2 | command and control | |
| C2W | command and control warfare | |
| CA | Civil Affairs - Designated Active and Reserve Component forces and units organized, trained, and equipped specifically to conduct Civil Affairs activities and to support civil-military operations. (JP 3-57 under revision) | |
| CACOM | Civil Affairs Command | |
| CACT | civic action team | |
| CAF | Charities Aid Foundation | |
| CAFOD | Catholic Fund for Overseas Development | |
| CALT | Civil Affairs liaison team | |
| CAOC | Civil Affairs Officer Course | |
| CAP3T | Civil Affairs plans, programs, and policy team | |
| CAPT-A | Civil Affairs Planning Team Alpha | |
| CAPT-B | Civil Affairs Planning Team Bravo | |
| CATA | Civil Affairs Team Alpha | |
| CATB | Civil Affairs Team Bravo | |
| CATC | Civil Affairs Team Charlie | |
| CCIR | Commander's Critical Intelligence Requirements | |
| CD | counterdrug | |
| CDC | Citizens Democracy Corps | |
| CE | communications-electronics | |
| CEDPA | Centre for Development and Population Activities | |
| CG | commanding general | |
| CHF | Child Health Foundation | |
| CHOP | change of operational control | |
| CI | civilian internee | |
| CIDA | Canadian International Development Agency | |
| CIHC | Center for International Health and Cooperation | |
| CIMIC | civil-military cooperation | |
| CINC | commander in chief | |
| CINCFORSCOM | Commander in Chief, United States Army Forces Command | |
| CIV | civilian | |
| civic action | (See MCA -military civic action.) | |
| civil administration | An administration established by a foreign government in (1) friendly territory, under an agreement with the government of the area concerned, to exercise certain authority normally the function of the local government, or (2) hostile territory, occupied by United States forces, where a foreign government exercises executive, legislative, and judicial authority until an indigenous civil government can be established. (JP 1-02) | |
| Civil Affairs activities | Activities performed or supported by Civil Affairs forces that (1) embrace the relationship between military forces and civil authorities in areas where military forces are present; and (2) involve the application of Civil Affairs functional specialty skills, in areas normally the responsibility of civil government, to enhance the conduct of civil-military operations. (JP 3-57 under revision) |
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| civil assistance | Military necessity may require a commander to provide life-sustaining services, maintain order, or control distribution of goods and services within his assigned operational area. Civil assistance differs from other forms of civil administration because it is based on the commander's decision. All other forms of civil administration require NCA approval. | |
| CJCS | Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff | |
| CJTF | commander, joint task force | |
| CM | countermine | |
| CMCC, UN | Civil-military coordination center, UN | |
| CMO | civil-military operations - The activities of a commander that establish, maintain, influence, or exploit relations between military forces, government and nongovernment civilian organizations and authorities, and the civilian populace in a friendly, neutral, or hostile area of operations in order to facilitate military operations and consolidate and achieve U.S. objectives. Civil-military operations may include performance by military forces of activities and functions normally the responsibility of local, regional, or national government. These activities may occur before, during, or after other military actions. They may also occur, if directed, in the absence of other military operations. Civil-military operations may be performed by designated Civil Affairs forces, by other military forces, or by a combination of Civil Affairs forces and other forces. Also called CMO. (JP 3-57 under revision) | |
| CMOC | civil-military operations center | |
| CNFA | Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs | |
| COA | course of action | |
| COCOM | combatant command | |
| COM | chief of mission | |
| combined command | A unification of two or more forces or agencies of two or more allies. When all allies or services are not involved, the participating nations and services shall be identified, for example, combined navies. | |
| COMMZ | communications zone | |
| CONOPS | concept of operations | |
| CONPLAN | operation plan in concept format | |
| CONUS | continental United States | |
| COSCOM | corps support command | |
| CP | command post | |
| CRWRC | Christian Reformed World Relief Committee | |
| CS | combat support | |
| CSAR | combat search and rescue | |
| CSM | command sergeant major | |
| CSS | combat service support | |
| CT | Connecticut | |
| CTOC | corps tactical operations center | |
| CWS | Church World Service | |
| DA | Department of the Army | |
| DAO | Defense Attaché Officer | |
| DAR | directed area for recovery | |
| DART | disaster assistance response team | |
| DASD(H&RA) | Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Humanitarian and Refugee Affairs | |
| DC | dislocated civilian - A broad term that includes a displaced person, an evacuee, an expellee, or a refugee. (JP 1-02) | |
| DCAA | dislocated civilian assembly area | |
| DCO | deputy commanding officer | |
| DCSOPS | Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans | |
| DEA | Drug Enforcement Administration | |
| developmental assistance | Long-Range programs to develop the infrastructure of a nation and aid in social and economic progress. | |
| DHHS | Department of Health and Human Services | |
| DJFAC | Deployable Joint Force Augmentation Cell | |
| DOC | Department of Commerce | |
| DOD | Department of Defense | |
| DOJ | Department of Justice | |
| DOS | Department of State | |
| DOT | Department of Transportation | |
| DTOC | division tactical operations center | |
| E&E | evasion and escape | |
| EEFI | esssential elements of friendly information | |
| EHA | Emergency Humanitarian Action | |
| EPA | evasion plan of action | |
| EPW | enemy prisoner of war | |
| ERA | emergency rest area | |
| FANS | friendly or allied nation support | |
| FAX | facsimile | |
| FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation | |
| FEMA | Federal Emergency Management Agency | |
| FID | foreign internal defense - Participation by civilian and military agencies of a government in any of the action programs taken by another government to free and protect its society from subversion, lawlessness, and insurgency. (JP 1-02) | |
| FM | field manual | |
| FN | foreign nation | |
| FNS | foreign nation support - Identification, negotiation, and procurement of available resources within a foreign nation to support U.S. military missions during wartime, preparation for war, or peacetime. The identification, coordination, and acquisition of foreign nation resources, such as supplies, material, and labor, to support U.S. military forces and operations. | |
| FORMDEPS | FORSCOM Mobilization and Deployment Planning System | |
| FORSCOM | United States Army Forces Command | |
| FRAGO | fragmentary order | |
| G1 | Assistant Chief of Staff, Personnel | |
| G2 | Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence | |
| G3 | Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations and Plans | |
| G4 | Assistant Chief of Staff, Logistics | |
| G5 | Assistant Chief of Staff, Civil Affairs | |
| GAO | General Accounting Office | |
| GII | global information infrastructure | |
| HA | humanitarian assistance - Programs conducted to relieve or reduce the results of natural or manmade disasters or other endemic conditions such as human pain, disease, hunger, or privation that might present a serious threat to life or that can result in great damage to or loss of property. Humanitarian assistance provided by U.S. forces is limited in scope and duration. The assistance provided is designed to supplement or complement the efforts of the host nation civil authorities or agencies that may have the primary responsibility for providing humanitarian assistance. (JP 1-02) | |
| HACC | Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Center | |
| HAST | humanitarian assistance survey team | |
| HazMat | hazardous material | |
| H/CA | humanitarian and civic assistance - Assistance to the local populace provided by predominantly U.S. forces in conjunction with military operations and exercises. This assistance is specifically authorized by Title 10, United States Code, section 401, and funded under separate authorities. Assistance provided under these provisions is limited to (1) medical, dental, and veterinary care provided in rural areas of a country; (2) construction of rudimentary surface transportation systems; (3) well drilling and construction of basic sanitation facilities; and (4) rudimentary construction and repair of public facilities. Assistance must fulfill unit training requirements that incidentally create humanitarian benefit to the local populace. See also humanitarian assistance. (JP 1-02) | |
| HDO | humanitarian demining operations | |
| HDR | humanitarian daily ration | |
| HHC | headquarters and headquarters company | |
| HMMWV | high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle | |
| HN | host nation - A nation that receives the forces and supplies of allied nations or NATO organizations to be located on, to operate in, or to transit through its territory. | |
| HNS | host nation support - Civil and/or military assistance rendered by a nation to foreign forces within its territory during peacetime, crises or emergencies, or war based on agreements mutually concluded between nations. (JP 1-02) | |
| HOC | Humanitarian Operations Center | |
| HQ | headquarters | |
| HSC | headquarters support company | |
| HUMINT | human intelligence | |
| ICRC | International Committee of the Red Cross | |
| IDAD | internal defense and development - The full range of measures taken by a nation to promote its growth and to protect itself from subversion, lawlessness, and insurgency. It focuses on building viable institutions (political, economic, social, and military) that respond to the needs of society. (JP 1-02) | |
| IFRC | International Federation of the Red Cross | |
| IMC | International Medical Corps | |
| information dominance | The degree of information superiority that allows the possessor to use information systems and capabilities to achieve an operational advantage in a conflict or to control the situation in operations short of war, while denying those capabilities to the adversary. (FM 100-6) | |
| INS | Immigration and Naturalization Service | |
| insurgency | (1) An organized movement aimed at the overthrow of a constituted government through use of subversion and armed conflict. (JP 1-02); (2) A condition resulting from a revolt or insurrection against a constituted government that falls short of civil war. | |
| IO | international organization - Organizations with global influence, such as the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross. (JP 1-02) | |
| IOBS | information operations battle staff | |
| IOM | International Organization for Migration | |
| IPB | intelligence preparation of the battlespace | |
| IR | information requirement | |
| IRC | International Rescue Committee | |
| ISB | intermediate staging base | |
| J1 | Manpower and Personnel Directorate of a joint staff | |
| J2 | Intelligence Directorate of a joint staff | |
| J3 | Operations Directorate of a joint staff | |
| J4 | Logistics Directorate of a joint staff | |
| J5 | Plans Directorate of a joint staff | |
| JCET | Joint or combined exchange training | |
| JCMOTF | Joint Civil-Military Operations Task Force | |
| JCS | joint chiefs of staff | |
| JDC | Joint Distribution Committee | |
| JFC | joint force commander | |
| JOA | joint operations area | |
| JP | joint publication | |
| JPOTF | joint psychological operations task force | |
| JSCP | Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan | |
| JSOA | joint special operations area | |
| JSOTF | joint special operations task force | |
| JTF | joint task force - A joint force that is constituted and so designated by the Secretary of Defense, a combatant commander, a sub-unified commander, or an existing joint task force commander. (JP 1-02) | |
| JVC | Jewish Volunteer Corps | |
| KATUSA | Korean Augmentation to the United States Army | |
| LAN | local area network | |
| LOC | line of communications | |
| LTOE | living table of organization and equipment | |
| LWR | Lutheran World Relief | |
| MACOM | major command | |
| MAT | ministerial advisory team | |
| MCA | military civic action - The use of preponderantly indigenous military forces on projects useful to the local population at all levels in such fields as education, training, public works, agriculture, transportation, communications, health, sanitation, and others contributing to economic and social development, which would also serve to improve the standing of the military forces with the population. (U.S. forces may at times advise or engage in military civic actions in overseas areas.) (JP 1-02) | |
| METT-TC | mission, enemy, terrain, troops, time available, and civil | |
| military information environment | The environment contained within the GIE, consisting of information systems (INFOSYS) and organizations-friendly and adversary, military and nonmilitary-that support, enable, or significantly influence a specific military operation. (FM 100-6) | |
| MOA | memorandum of agreement | |
| MOE | measures of effectiveness | |
| MOOTW | military operations other than war | |
| MOS | military occupational specialty | |
| MP | military police | |
| MPA | mission planning authority | |
| MSE | mobile subscriber equipment | |
| MSR | main supply route | |
| MSU | major subordinate unit | |
| MTOE | modified table of organization and equipment | |
| MTT | mobile training team - A team consisting of one or more U.S. military or civilian personnel sent on temporary duty, often to a foreign nation, to give instruction. The mission of the team is to train indigenous personnel to operate, maintain, and employ weapons and support systems, or to develop a self-training capability in a particular skill. The National Command Authorities may direct a team to train either military or civilian indigenous personnel, depending upon host nation requests. (JP 1-02) |
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| MTW | major theater war | |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization | |
| NBC | nuclear, biological, and chemical | |
| NCA | National Command Authorities - The President and the Secretary of Defense or their duly deputized alternates or successors. (JP 1-02) | |
| NCO | noncommissioned officer | |
| NCOER | noncommissioned officer evaluation report | |
| NCOIC | noncommissioned officer in charge | |
| NDO | national demining operations | |
| NEO | noncombatant evacuation operation | |
| NG | National Guard | |
| NGO | nongovernment organization - Transnational organizations of private citizens that maintain a consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Nongovernmental organizations may be professional associations, foundations, multinational businesses or simply groups with a common interest in humanitarian assistance activities (development and relief). "Nongovernmental organizations" is a term normally used by non-United States organizations. Also called NGO. (JP 1-02) | |
| O&M | operation and maintenance | |
| OBJ | objective | |
| OCONUS | outside the continental United States | |
| OER | officer evaluation report | |
| OFDA | Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance | |
| OHDACA | Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and Civic Aid | |
| OIC | officer in charge | |
| OJCS | Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff | |
| OPCON | operational control | |
| OPLAN | operation plan | |
| OPORD | operation order | |
| OPSEC | operations security | |
| ORT | Obshestwo Propostranienia Truda (Russian for "Society for Handicrafts and Agricultural Work") | |
| OSCE | Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe | |
| OSD | Office of the Secretary of Defense | |
| PA | public affairs | |
| PAO | public affairs officer | |
| PDD | Presidential Decision Directive | |
| PDP | professional development program | |
| PERSCOM | Personnel Command | |
| PERSEC | personnel security | |
| PHYSEC | physical security | |
| PIR | priority intelligence requirements | |
| POC | point of contact | |
| POTF | psychological operations task force | |
| PPP | power projection platform | |
| PR | personnel recovery | |
| PRC | populace and resources control | |
| PSRC | Presidential Selected Reserve Callup Authority | |
| PSS | personnel service support | |
| PSYOP | Psychological Operations - Planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. The purpose of psychological operations is to induce or reinforce foreign attitudes and behavior favorable to the originator's objectives. (JP 1-02) | |
| RC | Reserve Component | |
| RCAF | Royal Cambodian Armed Forces | |
| RCUCH | Reserve Component Unit Commander's Handbook | |
| rear area | For any particular command, the area extending forward from its rear boundary to the rear of the area of responsibility of the next lower level of command. This area is provided primarily for the performance of combat service support functions. | |
| rear battle | Those actions, including area damage control, taken by all units (combat, combat support, combat service support, and host nation) singly or in a combined effort, to secure the force, neutralize or defeat enemy operations in the rear area, and ensure freedom of action in the deep and close battles. | |
| RFA | request for assistance | |
| RI | Refugees International | |
| risk management | The process of examining and evaluating military and/or civilian operations to identify actions that could help commanders eliminate, reduce, or minimize risk while maximizing force protection. | |
| ROE | rules of engagement | |
| RSOI | reception, staging, onward movement, and integration | |
| S1 | adjutant | |
| S2 | intelligence officer | |
| S3 | operations and training officer | |
| S4 | logistics officer | |
| S5 | civil-military operations officer | |
| SA | security assistance - Group of programs authorized by the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and the Arms Export Control Act of 1976, as amended, or other related statutes by which the United States provides defense articles, military training, and other defense-related services, by grant, loan, credit, or cash sales in furtherance of national policies and objectives. (JP 1-02) | |
| SAFE | selected area for evasion - A designated area in hostile territory that offers evaders or escapees a reasonable chance of avoiding capture and of surviving until they can be evacuated. A SAFE area includes contact points and recovery sites. (JP 1-02). | |
| SAO | security assistance organization - All Department of Defense elements located in a foreign country with assigned responsibilities for carrying out security assistance management functions. It includes military assistance advisory groups, military missions and groups, offices of defense and military cooperation, liaison groups, and defense attaché personnel designated to perform security assistance functions. (JP 1-02) | |
| SAR | search and rescue | |
| SATCOM | satellite communications | |
| SCF (UK) | Save the Children Fund (United Kingdom) | |
| SCF (US) | Save the Children Fund (United States) | |
| SecDef | Secretary of Defense | |
| SERE | survival, evasion, resistance, and escape | |
| SF | Special Forces | |
| SFG(A) | Special Forces Group (Airborne) | |
| SFOD | Special Forces operational detachment | |
| SFODA | Special Forces operational detachment A | |
| SICP | standard integrated command post | |
| SINCGARS | Single-Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System | |
| SJA | Staff Judge Advocate | |
| SO | special operations | |
| SOC | special operations command | |
| SODARS | special operations debrief and retrieval system | |
| SOF | special operations forces | |
| SOFA | status of forces agreement | |
| SOP | standing operating procedure | |
| SOR | statement of requirements | |
| SOSCOM | Special Operations Support Command | |
| SOTSE | Special Operations Theater Support Element | |
| special operations | Operations conducted by specially organized, trained, and equipped military and paramilitary forces to achieve military, political, economic, or informational objectives by unconventional military means in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive areas. These operations are conducted across the full range of military operations, independently or in coordination with operations of conventional, non-special operations forces. Political-military considerations frequently shape special operations, requiring clandestine, covert, or low visibility techniques and oversight at the national level. Special operations differ from conventional operations in degree of physical and political risk, operational techniques, mode of employment, independence from friendly support, and dependence on detailed operational intelligence and indigenous assets. Also called SO. (JP 1-02) | |
| specified command | A command that has a broad, continuing mission, normally functional, and is established and so designated by the President through the Secretary of Defense with the advice and assistance of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It normally is composed of forces from a single Military Department. Also called specified combatant command. (JP 1-02) | |
| SR | special reconnaissance | |
| support to civil administration | Assistance given by U.S. armed forces to friendly or neutral foreign civilian governments or government agencies. | |
| TA | theater Army | |
| TAACOM | theater Army area command | |
| TASKORD | task order | |
| terrorism | The calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological. (JP 1-02) | |
| threat | The ability of an enemy to limit, neutralize, or destroy the effectiveness of a current or projected mission organization or item of equipment. (TRADOC Reg 381-1) | |
| THREATCON | terrorist threat condition | |
| TOE | table of organization and equipment | |
| TPFDL | time-phased force and deployment list | |
| TSC | theater support command | |
| TST | Theater Support Team | |
| TTAD | temporary tour of active duty | |
| UAR | unconventional assisted recovery - (1) Evader recovery conducted by directed unconventional warfare forces, dedicated extraction teams, and/or unconventional assisted recovery mechanisms operated by guerrilla groups or other clandestine organizations to seek out, contact, authenticate, support, and return evaders to friendly control. See also assisted recovery; authenticate; evader; recovery. (JP 1-02); (2) Recovery operations conducted by diverted unconventional warfare forces or dedicated insertion teams, and recovery mechanisms operated by guerrilla groups or other clandestine organizations, to seek out, contact, authenticate, support, and return personnel, to include evaders, detainees, and POWs, to friendly control. (DODI 2310.3) | |
| UIC | unit identification code | |
| UN | United Nations | |
| UNICEF | United Nations Children's Fund | |
| unified command | A command with a broad continuing mission under a single commander and composed of significant assigned components of two or more Military Departments, and which is established and so designated by the President, through the Secretary of Defense with the advice and assistance of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Also called unified combatant command. (JP 1-02) | |
| UNOCHA | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance | |
| UNWFP | United Nations World Food Program | |
| U.S | United States | |
| USACAPOC | United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command | |
| USAID | United States Agency for International Development | |
| USAJFKSWCS | United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School | |
| USAR | United States Army Reserve | |
| USASOC | United States Army Special Operations Command | |
| USC | United States Code | |
| USCENTCOM | United States Central Command | |
| USCINCSOC | Commander in Chief, U.S. Special Operations Command | |
| U.S. country team | The senior in-country U.S. coordinating and supervising body, headed by the chief of the U.S. diplomatic mission, usually an ambassador, and composed of the senior member of each represented U.S. department or agency provided by U.S. forces. | |
| USDA | United States Department of Agriculture | |
| USEUCOM | United States European Command | |
| USIA | United States Information Agency | |
| USIS | United States Information Service | |
| USJFCOM | United States Joint Forces Command | |
| USPACOM | United States Pacific Command | |
| USSOCOM | United States Special Operations Command | |
| USSOUTHCOM | United States Southern Command | |
| UW | unconventional warfare - A broad spectrum of military and paramilitary operations, normally of long duration, predominantly conducted by indigenous or surrogate forces who are organized, trained, equipped, supported, and directed in varying degrees by an external source. It includes guerrilla warfare and other direct offensive, low visibility, covert, or clandestine operations, as well as the indirect activities of subversion, sabotage, intelligence activities, and evasion and escape. (JP 1-02) | |
| WAN | wide area network | |
| WHNS | wartime host nation support | |
| WMD | weapons of mass destruction | |
| WVRD | World Vision Relief and Development | |
| WWII | World War II | |
| WWW | worldwide web |
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