Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume
XXXIV, National Security Policy, 1969–1972
Abbreviations and terms
- AAM, air-to-air
missile
- AAW, anti-air
warfare
- ABM, anti-ballistic
missile
- ABMDA, Army
Ballistic Missile Defense Agency
- ACDA, Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency
- AD, assured
destruction
- ADIZ, air defense
identification zone
- ADM, Atomic Demolition
Munitions
- AEC, Atomic Energy
Commission
- ALCOM, Alaskan
Command
- AMSA, Advanced Manned
Strategic Aircraft
- ANG, Air National
Guard
- ANZUS, Australia-New
Zealand-United States (treaty organization)
- AP, Associated
Press
- AREUR, Army
Europe
- ARVN, Army of the
Republic of (South) Vietnam
- ASA, anti-submarine
aircraft
- ASM, air-to-surface
missile
- ASV, anti-submarine
vessel
- ASW, anti-submarine
warfare
- AVF, all-volunteer
armed force
- AWACS, Airborne
Warning and Control System
- B, billion
- BMD, ballistic missile
defense
- BMEWS, Ballistic
Missile Early Warning System
- BMS, ballistic missile
submarine
- BNSP, basic national
security policy
- BOB, Bureau of the
Budget
- BW, biological
weapon(s)
- C3, command, control, and communications
- CBW, chemical and
biological weapon(s)
- CCP, Consolidated
Cryptologic Plan
- CEA, Council of
Economic Advisers
- CEP, circular error
probability
- CIA, Central
Intelligence Agency
- CHICOM, Communist
China (People’s Republic of China)
- CINC, Commander in
Chief
- CINCAL, Commander
in Chief, Alaska
- CINCEUR, Commander
in Chief, European Command
- CINCLANT,
Commander in Chief, Atlantic Command
- CINCNORAD,
Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace Defense Command
- CINCONAD,
Commander in Chief, Continental Air Defense Command
- CINCPAC, Commander
in Chief, Pacific Command
- CINCSAC, Commander
in Chief, Strategic Air Command
- CINCSTRIKE,
Commander in Chief, STRIKE Command
- CNO, Chief of Naval
Operations
- COB, close of
business
- COC, command operation
center
- COMIDEASTFOR,
Commander, Middle East Forces
- COMINT,
communications intelligence
- CONAD, Continental
Air Defense Command
- CONUS, Continental
United States
- CPR, People’s Republic
of China (also PRC)
- CVA, attack aircraft
carrier
- CVAN, attack aircraft
carrier, nuclear-powered
- CVS, support aircraft
carrier
- CW, chemical
weapon(s)
- CY, calendar
year
- D, deployment
- D-day, deployment
day
- DEFCON, defense
readiness condition
- DFE, division force
equivalent
- DIA, Defense
Intelligence Agency
- DICBM, depressed
trajectory intercontinental ballistic missile
- DLGN, nuclear-powered
guided missile frigate
- DOB, dispersed
operating bases
- DOD, Department of
Defense
- DPQ, Defense Planning
Questionnaire
- DPRC, Defense Program
Review Committee
- ECM, electronic
countermeasures
- ELINT, electronic
intelligence
- EMCON, emission
control
- EMP, electromagnetic
pulse
- ENDC, Eighteen-Nation
Disarmament Committee
- EUCOM, European
Command
- EUR, Bureau of
European Affairs
- EUR/RPM, Bureau of
European Affairs, Office of NATO and
Atlantic Political-Military Affairs
- exo pen aids,
exoatmospheric penetration aids
- FBI, Federal Bureau of
Investigation
- FBM, fleet ballistic
missile
- FBS, forward-based
systems
- FOBS, Fractional
Orbital Bombardment System
- FRG, Federal Republic
of Germany
- FY, fiscal year
- FYDP, Five-Year
Defense Program
- GNP, Gross National
Product
- GPF, general purpose
forces
- GRC, Government of the
Republic of China
- GTE, greater than
expected
- HEW, Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare
- HPD, hard point
defense
- HSD, hard site
defense
- ICBM,
intercontinental ballistic missile
- INR, Bureau of
Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- IOC, initial
operational capability
- IPMG,
Interdepartmental Political-Military Group
- IRBM,
intermediate-range ballistic missile
- ISA, Office of the
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
- ISI, initial support
increment
- J–3, Operations
Directorate of the Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- JCS, Joint Chiefs of
Staff
- JCSM, Joint Chiefs of
Staff Memorandum
- JFM, Joint Force
Memorandum
- JSOP, Joint Strategic
Objectives Plan
- KGB,
Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (Committee for
State Security, Soviet Secret Police)
- KP, kitchen police KT,
kiloton
- LANTCOM, Atlantic
Command
- LOC, lines of
communication; limited operational capability
- LRA, long-range
aviation
- LSNW, limited
strategic nuclear warfare
- M, mobilization day;
million
- MAF, Marine Amphibious
Forces
- MAP, Military
Assistance Program
- MBFR, mutual and
balanced force reductions
- MIDEASTFOR,
Middle East Forces
- MIRV, multiple
independently-targeted reentry vehicles
- MK, Mark
- MM, Minuteman
missile
- MRBM, medium-range
ballistic missile
- MRCA, multi-role
combat aircraft
- MRV, multiple reentry
vehicles
- MSC, Military Sealift
Command
- MSR, missile site
radar
- MT, megaton(s)
- NAC, North Atlantic
Council
- NASA, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NATO, North Atlantic
Treaty Organization
- NCA, National Command
Authority; National Capital Area
- NE, Northeast
- NEA, Northeast Asia;
Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
- NIC, National
Intelligence Council
- NIE, National
Intelligence Estimate
- NIPP, National
Intelligence Projections for Planning
- NK, North Korea
- NLT, not later than
nm, nautical mile
- NOA, new obligational
authority
- NORAD, North
American Aerospace Defense Command
- NSA, National Security
Agency
- NSC, National Security
Council
- NSAM, National
Security Action Memorandum
- NSDM, National
Security Decision Memorandum
- NSF, National Science
Foundation
- NSSM, National
Security Study Memorandum
- NVN, North Vietnam;
North Vietnamese
- NW, Northwest
- OASD, Office of the
Assistant Secretary of Defense
- OEP, Office of
Emergency Preparedness
- O&M, operations and
maintenance
- OMB, Office of
Management and Budget
- OP&MA,
Objectives, Plans and Military Assistance Division
- OSD, Office of the
Secretary of Defense
- OSD (ISA), Office
of the Secretary of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
for International Security Affairs
- OSD (SA), Office of
the Secretary of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Systems Analysis
- OST, Office of Science
and Technology
- OTH–B, over the
horizon—backscatter radar
- PACOM, Pacific
Command
- PAR, perimeter
acquisition radar
- PDB, President’s Daily
Brief
- pen aids,
penetration aids
- PF, police force;
popular force
- PFIAB, President’s
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
- PLA, People’s
Liberation Army
- POL, petroleum, oils,
lubricants
- PM, Bureau of
Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State
- POM, Program
Objectives Memorandum
- PRC, People’s Republic
of China (also CPR)
- PSAC, President’s
Science Advisory Committee
- psi, pounds per square
inch
- PWs, prisoners of
war
- RCA, riot control
agent
- RCS, remote control
system
- R&D, research and
development
- RDF,
radio-direction-finding
- RDT&E, research,
development, test, and evaluation REFORGER, Return of Forces to
Germany
- RF, reserve force;
regional force
- RG, Review Group;
Record Group
- ROK, Republic of
Korea
- ROTC, Reserve Officer
Training Corps
- RV, reentry
vehicle
- RVN, Republic of
Vietnam
- SAB, Science Advisory
Board
- SAC, Supreme Allied
Commander; Strategic Air Command
- SACEUR, Supreme
Allied Commander, European Command
- SACLANT, Supreme
Allied Commander, Atlantic Command
- SAL, strategic arms
limitation
- SALT, Strategic Arms
Limitation Talks
- SAM, surface-to-air
missile
- SAM–D, surface-to-air
missile development
- SEA, Southeast
Asia
- SEATO, Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization
- SECDEF, Secretary
of Defense
- SFD, Special
Facilities Division (OEP)
- SFRC, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee
- SG, Safeguard
- SIGINT, signals
intelligence
- SIOP, Single
Integrated Operational Plan
- SLBM, submarine
launched ballistic missile
- SLCM, submarine
launched cruise missile
- SOSUS, sound
surveillance system
- SOUTHCOM,
Southern Command
- SPN, Spartan
missile
- SRAM, short-range
attack missile
- SRG, Senior Review
Group
- SSBN, nuclear
ballistic missile submarine
- SSI, sustaining
support increment
- SSN, nuclear
submarine
- SSO, special security
officer
- STRAF, Strategic
Army Forces
- STRIKE,
STRIKE Command
- SVN, South
Vietnam
- SWWA,
Stop-Where-We-Are proposal
- TOA, total
obligational authority
- TO&E, table of
organization and equipment
- TOE, term of
enlistment
- UAR, United Arab
Republic
- UCP, unified command
plan
- U/I,
urban/industrial
- UK, United
Kingdom
- ULMS, Undersea
Long-Range Missile System
- UN, United
Nations
- UPI, United Press
International
- US, United
States
- USAF, United States
Air Force
- USARPAC, United
States Army, Pacific
- USC, Under Secretaries
Committee, National Security Council
- USCINCEUR,
United States Commander in Chief, European Command
- USCINCSO, United
States Commander in Chief, Southern Command
- USEUCOM, United
States European Command
- USIA, United States
Information Agency
- USIB, United States
Intelligence Board
- USMC, United States
Marine Corps
- USN, United States
Navy
- USSOUTHCOM,
United States Southern Command
- USSR, Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics
- VN, Vietnam
- VP, Verification
Panel
- WG, working
group
- WRT, with respect
to
- WSAG, Washington
Special Actions Group
- WWMCCS, Worldwide
Military Command and Control System