Blueprints for Battle: Planning for War in Central Europe, 1948-1968

Abbreviations and Common Terms

xxxv Abbreviations and Common Terms ACE Allied Command Europe ACE-LCC Allied Command Europe Logistic Coordination Center ADM atomic demolition munitions AFCENT Allied Forces Central Europe AFNORTH Allied Forces Northern Europe APC armored personnel carrier ATAF Allied Tactical Air Force ATGM antitank guided missile BAOR British Army of the Rhine BGS (Int & Sy) brigadier, General Staff (Intelligence and Security) BND Bundesnachrichtendienst (German Federal Intelligence Service) BRIXMIS British Military Mission to the Soviet Forces in Germany Bundeswehr The joint military forces of the Federal Republic of Germany CANUKUS Canada–United Kingdom–United States CENTAG NATO Central Army Group, subordinate to Allied Forces Central Europe CEPS Central European Pipeline System CIA Central Intelligence Agency CINCENT commander-in-chief, Allied Forces Central Europe CINCNORTH commander-in-chief, Allied Forces Northern Europe CINCSOUTH commander-in-chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe COMINT communications intelligence COMLANDCENT commander, Land Forces Central Europe COMNORTHAG commander, Northern Army Group DC Defense Committee EDC European Defense Community EDP emergency defense plan xxxvi Abbreviations and Common Terms EGA East German army EUCOM United States European Command FALLEX Fall Exercise FEBA forward edge of the battle area FRG Federal Republic of Germany FROG free rocket over ground front a Soviet army group G-2 General Staff Section 2, Intelligence G-3 General Staff Section 3, Operations GDP general deployment plan GDR German Democratic Republic GOSPLAN Gosudarstvennyi Komitet po Planirovaniyu (Soviet State Committee for Planning) GRU Glavnoy Razvedovatel’noy Upravlenie (Soviet Military Intelligence) GSFG Group of Soviet Forces in Germany HQ headquarters HUMINT human intelligence ICBM intercontinental ballistic missile ICC NATO Northern Army Group’s Intercept Control Centre IRBM intermediate-range ballistic missile KGB Komityet Gosudarstvyennoy Bezopasnosti (Soviet Union’s primary intelligence agency) KT kiloton, explosive power in thousands of tons of TNT LANDCENT Allied Land Forces, Central Europe MC Military Committee MI6 Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, once known as Military Intelligence 6 MIRV multiple individually targeted reentry vehicle MLF Multilateral Force MRBM medium-range ballistic missile NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization NBC nuclear, biological, and chemical NORTHAG NATO’s Northern Army Group, subordinate to Allied Forces Central Europe NVA Nationale Volksarmee (National People’s Army, the military force of the German Democratic Republic) Panzer division Bundeswehr armored division Abbreviations and Common Terms xxxvii Panzer Grenadier Bundeswehr mechanized infantry division division POL petroleum, oil, and lubricants PTRB mobile nuclear weapons unit PVA Polnischen Volksarmee (Polish People’s Army) RAF Royal Air Force REFORGER Return of Forces to Germany, annual American exercise ROAD Reorganization Objectives Army Division SACEUR supreme allied commander, Europe SAS Special Air Service SED Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (the Communist Party of the German Democratic Republic) SHAPE Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe SHD special handling detachment SIGINT signals intelligence SIS Secret Intelligence Service, Britain’s MI6 SITCEN Situation Center SLAR side-looking airborne radar SLBM submarine-launched ballistic missile SPD Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (the Social Democratic Party of the Federal Republic of Germany) SRBM short-range ballistic missile SRS Special Reconnaissance Squadron, Royal Armoured Corps Stasi Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (Ministry for State Security of the German Democratic Republic) TO&E table of organization and equipment USAREUR United States Army, Europe VHF very high frequency WINTEX Winter Exercise WUDO Western Union Defense Organization ...