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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2017

Michael G. Kort
Michael G. Kort
Affiliation:
Boston University

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The Vietnam War Reexamined , pp. xiv - xvi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

Abbreviations

APC

Accelerated Pacification Campaign

ARVN

Army of the Republic of Vietnam

DMZ

Demilitarized Zone

CCP

Chinese Communist Party

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency

CMAC

Chinese Military Advisory Group

CORDS

Civil Operations and Revolutionary (later changed to Rural) Development Support

COSVN

Central Office for South Vietnam

CPSU

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

DAO

Defense Attaché Office

DIA

Defense Intelligence Agency

DVN

Democratic Republic of Vietnam

GVN

Government of (South) Vietnam

ICP

Indochinese Communist Party

JCS

U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff

MACV

Military Assistance Command, Vietnam

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NLF

National Liberation Front

POL

Petroleum, Oil, Lubricants

PPBS

Planning Programming and Budgeting Systems

PRC

People’s Republic of China

PSDF

People’s Self Defense Force

ROEs

Rules of Engagement

RVN

Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)

RVNAF

Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) Armed Forces

SAM

Surface to Air Missile

SEATO

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

VCI

Vietcong Infrastructure

VNQDD

Vietnam Nationalist Party

VWP

Vietnamese Workers’ Party

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