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1TAG | st Tactical Airlift Group |
A2/AD | Anti-Access Area Denial |
AAM | Air to air missile |
AAW | Anti-aircraft warfare |
ACSA | Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement |
ADC | Air Defense Command ( Kkstai ) |
ADF | Australian Defence Forces |
ADIZ | Air Defense Identification Zone |
ADMM | ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting |
ADTC | Air Development and Test Command |
AEW | Airborne Early Warning |
AFV | Armoured fighting vehicle |
ANA | All Nippon Airways |
AOE | Fast combat support ship/replenishment vessel |
AOR | Combat stores ship/replenishment vessel (also AFS) |
APC | Armoured personnel carrier |
ARDB | Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade ( Suirikukiddan ) |
ARDR | Amphibious Rapid Deployment Regiments ( Suirikukidrentai ) |
ARF | ASEAN Regional Forum |
ARV | Armoured reconnaissance vehicle |
ASC | Air Support Command ( Kkshienjdan ) |
ASDF | Air Self-Defense Force ( Kkjieitai ) |
ASEAN | Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
ASIS | Australian Secret Intelligence Service |
ASO | Allied-Support Operations |
ASW | Antisubmarine warfare |
ATC | Air traffic control |
ATgC | Air Training Command ( Kkkyikushdan ) |
ATLA | Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency |
AWACS | Airborne Warning and Control Systems |
BADGE | Base Air Defense Ground Environment |
BMD | Ballistic missile defence |
BPND | Basic Policy for National Defense ( Kokubno kihonhshin ) |
BRI | Belt and Road Initiative |
C3 | Command, Control, Communications |
C4-ISR | Command, Control, Communications, Computers-Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance |
CADF | Central Air Defense Force |
CAS | Cabinet Secretariat ( Naikakukanb ) |
CAS | Close Air Support |
CCA | Close Combat Attack |
CCG | Chinese Coast Guard |
CCP | Chinese Communist Party |
CDU | Cyber Defense Unit |
CGPS | UN Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia |
CIA | Central Intelligence Agency |
CIC | Combat information centre |
CIMIC | Civil-military cooperation |
CIRO | Cabinet Intelligence Research Office ( Naikakujh chsashitsu ) |
CIVPOL | Civilian police (in UN operations) |
CLB | Cabinet Legislation Bureau ( Naikakuhseikyoku ) |
CRF | Central Readiness Force |
CSD | Collective self-defence |
CSF | Coastal Safety Force |
CSIC | Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center ( Naikakueiseijh sentaa ) |
CTBT | Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty |
CTF | Combined task force |
CTO | Counter-Terrorism Operations |
CWC | Chemical Weapons Convention |
DAPE | Deployment Air Force for Counter-Piracy Enforcement |
DBP | Defense Build-up Plan |
DCI | Director of Cabinet Intelligence |
DDR | Demobilization, disarming, and reintegration |
DFAA | Defense Facilities Administration Agency ( Beishisetsuch ) |
DIH | Defense Intelligence Headquarters ( Jhhonbu ) |
DOD | Department of Defense |
DPJ | Democratic Party of Japan ( Minshut ) |
DPRK | Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea |
ECS | East China Sea |
EEZ | Exclusive Economic Zone |
ELINT | Electronic Intelligence |
EOD | Explosive Ordnance Disposal ( fuhatsudanshori ) |
EU | European Union |
FAC | Forward air control |
FEC/FECOM | Far East Command |
FIR | Flight Information Regions |
FMS | Foreign Military Sales |
FOIP | Free and Open Indo-Pacific |
FONOPS | Freedom of navigation exercises |
FRAM | Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization |
GAO | Government Accountability Office |
GCC | Ground Component Command ( Rikujstai ) |
GSDF | Ground Self-Defense Force ( Rikujjieitai ) |
GSO | Ground Staff Office ( Rikuj bakurykanbu ) |
GSOMIA | General Security of Military Information Agreement |
HAC | Honourable Artillery Company |
HA/DR | Humanitarian assistance/disaster relief |
HAS | Hardened Aircraft Shelters |
HUMINT | Human intelligence |
IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
ICBM | Inter-continental ballistic missile |
IDF | Israeli Defense Force |
IED | Improvised Explosive Device |
IISS | International Institute for Strategic Studies |
IJA | Imperial Japanese Army ( Teikokurikgun ) |
IJN | Imperial Japanese Navy ( Teikokukaigun ) |
IMF | International Monetary Fund |
INTERFET | International Force East Timor |
IPCC | International Peace Cooperation Corps |
IPCH | International Peace Cooperation Headquarters ( Kokusaiheiwakyryoku honbujimukyoku ) IPCL International Peace Cooperation Law ( Kokusaiheiwakyryokuh ) |
IPSL | International Peace Support Law ( Kokusaiheiwashienh ) |
IRSG | Iraq Reconstruction and Support Group |
ISPC | Information Security Policy Council |
JADGE | Japan Air Defense Ground Environment |
JASSM | Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-off Missile |
JATEC | Japan Technical Committee for Assistance to US Anti-War Deserters |
JCG | Japan Coast Guard ( Kaijhoanch ) |
J-CON |