Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield

ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

AC1, Abbottabad Compound 1

ACCMs, Alternative Compartmentalized Control Measures

AFOs, Advance Force Operations

AFRICOM, US Africa Command

AIAI, Al Itihaad al Islamiya

AMISOM, African Union Mission in Somalia

ANSF, Afghan National Security Forces

AOR, Area of Responsibility

AQAP, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

AQI, al Qaeda in Iraq

AQN ExOrd, Al Qaeda Network Execute Order

ASWJ, Ahlu Sunna Wal Jama

AUMF, Authorization for Use of Military Force

BIF, Battlefield Interrogation Facility

CAG, Combat Applications Group (also known as Delta Force)

CCR, Center for Constitutional Rights

CENTCOM, Central Command

CFR, Council on Foreign Relations

CID, Army Criminal Investigations Division

CINC, commander in chief

CJTF 180, Combined Joint Task Force 180

CJTF–HOA, Combined Joint Task Force–Horn of Africa

COIN, counterinsurgency

CONOP, Concept of Operations

CSF, Central Security Forces

CSSW, Charitable Society for Social Welfare

CT, counterterrorism

CTC, Counterterrorism Center

CTTL, Continuous Clandestine Tagging Tracking and Locating

DDTC, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls

DEVGRU, Naval Warfare Development Group (also known as Seal Team 6)

DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency

DoD, Department of Defense

E.K.I.A., Enemy Killed in Action

EC, Electronic Communications

EOD, Explosive Ordnance Disposal

FOG, Field Operations Group

FOUO, For Official Use Only

GRS, Global Response Staff

GST, Greystone

GTMO, or Gitmo, Guantánamo Bay

GWOT, Global War on Terror (or Terrorism)

HIG, Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin

HUMINT, human intelligence

HVT, High Value Target

IC, Intelligence Community

ICG, International Crisis Group

ICRC, International Committee of the Red Cross

ICU, Islamic Courts Union

IDPs, Internally Displaced Persons

INS, Immigration and Naturalization Service

IONA, Islamic Organization of North America

ISAF, International Security Assistance Force

ISI, Inter-Services Intelligence

ISR, Intelligence, Surveillance Reconnaissance

IWGCA, Interagency Working Group for Covert Action

JAG, Judge Advocate General

JIMAS, Association to Revive the Way of the Messenger

JPEL, Joint Prioritized Effects List

JPRA, Joint Personnel Recovery Agency

JSOC, Joint Special Operations Command

JUWTF, Joint Unconventional Warfare Task Force

KIA, killed in action

LeT, Lashkar-e-Taiba

LIMDIS, limited distribution

MLE, Military Liaison Elements

NBC, nuclear, biological, chemical

NGO, nongovernmental organization

NSA, National Security Agency

NSC, National Security Council

NSDD, National Security Decision Directive

NSPD, National Security Presidential Directive

NSS, National Security Service

OLC, Office of Legal Counsel

OSS, Office of Strategic Services

PAK, Pakistan

PET, Danish Intelligence Service

PETN, pentaerythritol tetranitrate

PNAC, Project for the New American Century

PSO, Political Security Organization

QRF, Quick Reaction Force

RAO, Regional Affairs Office

RPGs, rocket-propelled grenades

SAD, Special Activities Division of the CIA

SAP, Special Access Program

SAS, Special Air Service

SCUD, tactical ballistic missile

SEALs, Sea, Air, Land teams of the US Navy

SECDEF, or SecDef, or Secdef, secretary of defense

SELECT, an elite division of Blackwater

SERE, Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape

SMU, Special Mission Unit

SO/LIC, Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict

SOC(FWD)-PAK, Special Operations Command-Forward Pakistan

SOC(FWD)-Yemen, Special Operations Command-Forward Yemen

SOCOM, Special Operations Command

SOF, Special Operations Forces

SOG, Studies and Observation Group

SOP, standard operating procedure

SSB, Strategic Support Branch

TADS, Terrorist Attack Disruption Strikes

TCCC, Tom Clancy Combat Concepts

TECS II, Treasury Enforcement Communications System

TF, Task Force

TFG, Transitional Federal Government

UAE, United Arab Emirates

USAID, US Agency for International Development

USG, US government

USSOCOM, US Special Operations Command

WFO, Washington Field Office

WMD, weapons of mass destruction