| AAA | Anti-aircraft ammunition
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| ACTORD | Activation Order (instruction from NAC to NATO military)
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| ACTWARN | Activation Warning Order
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| AFSOUTH | Allied Forces South (NATO HQ situated in Naples)
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| AMRAMM | Advanced medium-range air-to-air missile
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| ARRC | Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps
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| ASTOR | Airborne Stand-off radar
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| CAOC | NATO Combined Air Operations Centre (situated in Vincenza)
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| CDI | The Chief of Defence Intelligence
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| CDS | The Chief of the Defence Staff
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| CINCSOUTH | Commander of AFSOUTH
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| CJO | The Chief of Joint Operations (Commander of PJHQ)
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| COMARRC | The Commander of the ARRC
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| DCDS | Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff
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| DCI | NATO's Defence Capabilities Initiative
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| DCMO | Defence Crisis Management Organisation
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| DfID | Department for International Development
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| DIS | Defence Intelligence Staff/Service
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| DoD | Department of Defense (USA)
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| DSACEUR | NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
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| EU | European Union
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| FCO | Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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| FRY | Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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| GPS | Global positioning satellite system
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| ICTY | International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
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| IO | Information Operations
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| ISTAR | Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance
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| JDAM | Joint Direct Attack Munition
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| JIC | Joint Intelligence Committee
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| KFOR | NATO's peace-enforcement force in Kosovo
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| KLA | The Kosovo Liberation Army (aka UCK)
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| KVM | Kosovo Verification Mission
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| MoD | Ministry of Defence (UK)
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| MTA | Military-Technical Agreement
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| MUP | Yugoslav special police force
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| NAC | North Atlantic Council
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| NAO | National Audit Office
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| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
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| NGO | Non-governmental organisation
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| PFI | Private Finance Initiative
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| PGM | Precision guided munition
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| PJHQ | Permanent Joint Headquaters (at Northwood in the UK)
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| PSO | Peace Support Operation(s)
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| SACEUR | NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
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| SAM | Surface-to-air missile
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| SEAD | Suppression of enemy air defences
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| SHAPE | Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
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| TA | Territorial Army
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| TLAM | Tomahawk land-attack missile
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| UAV | Unmanned (or unoccupied) Aerial Vehicle
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| UCK | See KLA
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| UN | United Nations
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| UNHCR | United Nations High Commission for Refugees
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| UNPREDEP |
United Nations Preventative Deployment Force
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| UNSCR | United Nations Security Council Resolution
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| USAF | United States Air Force
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| VJ | Yugoslav Army
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| WEU | Western European Union
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