Prelude to World War Three: The Rise of the Islamic Republic and the Rebirth of America

Acronym Key

ABML = Anti-Ballistic Missile Lasers

ACLU = American Civil Liberties Union

AFC = America First Corporation

AG = Attorney General

AIR = Advanced Infantry Rifle

AO = Area of Operations

AT = Anti-tank

BCT = Brigade Combat Team

BG = Brigadier General

C3 = Command Control and Communications

CAG = Commander, Air Group

CAP = Combat Air Patrol

CENTCOM = Central Command

CG = Commanding General

CIC = Combat Information Center

CIO = Chief Information Officer

CMC = Central Military Commission

CNO = Chief of Naval Operations

DHS = Department of Homeland Security

DIA = Defense Intelligence Agency

DOD = Department of Defense

DOE = Department of Energy

DOJ = Department of Justice

EMP = Electromagnetic Pulse

EO = Executive Order

EU = European Union

EUCOM = European Command

FP = Freedom Party

FSB = Russia’s version of the CIA

GC = Grain Consortium

GDP = Gross Domestic Product

GRU = Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Russia’s equivalent to America’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

HEAT = High Explosive Anti-Tank

HUD = Heads Up Display

HUMINT = Human Intelligence (Information gained through spy craft, interrogations, and source operations)

IAF = Israeli Air Force

ID = Infantry Division

IDF = Israeli Defense Force

IDS = Iron Dome System

IED = Improvised Explosive Device

IFV = Infantry Fighting Vehicles

IR = Islamic Republic

ISI = The Pakistani Interservice Intelligence Agency

ISR = Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance

J2 = Joint Intelligence Directorate

JAG = Judge Advocate General (military lawyer)

JDF = Japanese Defense Force

JSOC = Joint Special Operations Command

KIA = Killed In Action

LDT = Light Drone Tank

LNG = Liquid Natural Gas

LNO = Liaison Officer

LTC = Lieutenant Colonel

LTG = Lieutenant General

LTV = Light Tactical Vehicles

MANPADS = Man-Portable Air-Defense Systems

MBT = Main Battle Tanks

MG = Major General

MIA = Missing In Action

MEF = Marine Expeditionary Force

MLRS = Multiple-Launch Rocket System

MRE = Meal Ready to Eat (packages of meals that are shelf stable for a long time and used by the military)

NAD = New American Dollar

NAFTA = North American Free Trade Agreement

NCO = Non-Commissioned Officer

NIC = National Identity Cards (biometrically enabled cards for identification and tracking)

NSC = National Security Council

OPEC = Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries

PACOM = Pacific Command

PEOC = Presidential Emergency Operation Center

PGA = Provisional Governing Authority (temporary government set up by the US)

PLA = People’s Liberation Army (Chinese Army)

PLAN = People’s Liberation Army Navy (Chinese Navy)

PLAAF = People’s Liberation Army Air Force (Chinese Air Force)

PM = Prime Minister

PMC = Private Military Contractor

POW = Prisoner of War

PRC = People’s Republic of China

QE = Quantitative Easing

RPG = Rocket Propelled Grenade

SCZ = Suez Canal Zone

SecDef = Secretary of Defense

SMEs = Subject Matter Experts

TDF = Taiwanese Defense Force

WIA = Wounded In Action

WMD = Weapons of Mass Destruction

VBIED = Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device