List of Abbreviations
ACTS Air Corps Tactical School
AEF American Expeditionary Force
ARRC Ace Rapid Reaction Corps
AWRD Authority for Weapon Research and Development
BESA Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
CCP Chinese Communist Party
CPV Chinese People’s Volunteers
DBK Dominance in Battlefield Knowledge
DFID Department for International Development
EBO Effects-Based Operations
FM Field Manual
GLCMs Ground-Launched Cruise Missiles
GRU Main Intelligence Directorate
GSS General Security Service
GTF General Tactical Functions of Larger Units
HIC High-Intensity Conflict
IAF Israeli Air Force
IDF Israel Defense Forces
IGO Intergovernmental Organization
ISAF International Security Assistance Force
KMT Kuomintang
LIC Low-Intensity Conflict
MOOTW Military Operations Other than War
NARKOMO People’s Commissariat of Defence
NCW Network-Centric Warfare
NEP New Economic Policy
NGO Non-Governmental Organization
NORTHAG Northern Army Group
OGPU Unified State Political Administration
OKH Oberkommando des Heeres
OMG Operational Manoeuvre Group
OSCE Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
OTRI Operational Theory Research Institute
PKO Peacekeeping Operation