| ACP | American College of Physicians |
| ACR | Armored Calvary Regiment |
| ACS | Afghan Corrections System |
| ADX | Administrative Maximum Facility (Supermax) (Florence) |
| AIHRC | Afghanistan?s Independent Human Rights Commission |
| APA | American Psychological Association |
| APPG | All-Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition |
| AQ | Al Qaeda |
| ANSF | Afghan National Security Forces |
| AUMF | Authorization for Use of Military Force |
| AZ | Abu Zubaydah |
| BCP | Bagram Collection Point |
| BHA | Brigade Holding Area |
| BIFS | Brigade Internment Facilities |
| BOP | Bureau of Prisons (DOJ) |
| BSCT | Behavioral Science Consultation Team (?Biscuit?) |
| BTIF | Bagram Theater Internment Facility |
| CAT | U.N. Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment |
| CID | (1) Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading [Treatment or Punishment]) (2) U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command |
| CIL | Customary International Law |
| CITF | Guant?namo Criminal Investigative Task Force |
| CJIATF-435 | Combined Joint Interagency Task Force?435 |
| CJTF-180 | Combined Joint Task Force?180 (or -7, etc) |
| COIN | Counter-Insurgent Strategy |
| CNSD | Committee on National Security and Defense (Lithuania) |
| CPT | European Committee for the Prevention of Torture |
| CRS | Congressional Research Service |
| CSRT | Combatant Status Review Tribunal |
| DCHC | Defense Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center (DIA) |
| DIFS | Division Internment Facilities |
| DHS | Department of Homeland Security |
| DFIP | Detention Facility at Parwan |
| DIA | Defense Intelligence Agency (DOD) |
| DOD | Department of Defense |
| DOJ | Department of Justice |
| DOS | Department of State |
| DRB | Detainee Review Board |
| DTA | Detainee Treatment Act |
| ECCC | Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia |
| ECHR | European Court of Human Rights |
| DUC | Detained Unlawful Combatant |
| ECRB | Enemy Combatant Review Board |
| EITs | Enhanced Interrogation Techniques |
| EO | Executive Order |
| FISA | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act |
| FM | Army Field Manual |
| FOIA | Freedom of Information Act |
| GAO | Government Accountability Office |
| GCI | First Geneva Convention |
| GCII | Second Geneva Convention |
| GCIII | Third Geneva Convention |
| GCIV | Fourth Geneva Convention |
| GIRoA | Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan |
| GTMO | Guant?namo Bay Detention Camp |
| GWOT | Global War on Terrorism |
| HIG | High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group |
| HVD | High-Value Detainee |
| ICTY | International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia |
| ICTR | International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |
| IHL | International Humanitarian Law |
| HUMINT | Human Intelligence |
| ICC | International Criminal Court |
| ICCPR | International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
| ICE | Guant?namo?s Interrogation and Control Element |
| ICRC | International Committee of the Red Cross |
| ICTR | International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |
| ICTY | International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia |
| IED | Improvised Explosive Device |
| IG | Inspector General (various agencies) |
| ISAF | International Security Assistance Force |
| ISG | Iraq Survey Group |
| ISN | Interment Serial Number |
| JAG | Judge Advocate General |
| JIDC | Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center |
| JPRA | Joint Personnel Recovery Agency |
| JSOC | Joint Special Operations Command |
| JTF-GTMO | Joint Task Force Guant?namo |
| KFOR | Kosovo Force (NATO) |
| KSM | Khalid Sheikh Mohammed |
| LIFG | Libyan Islamic Fighting Group |
| LLEC | Low Level Enemy Combatants |
| LOAC | Law of Armed Conflict |
| LTTE | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
| MCA | Military Commissions Act |
| MEP | Member of the European Parliament |
| MI | Military Intelligence |
| MOU | Memorandum of Understanding |
| MP | Military Police |
| MRE | Meal, Ready to Eat |
| NCIS | Naval Criminal Investigative Service |
| NCO | Noncommissioned Officer |
| NDS | National Directorate of Security (Afghanistan) |
| NGO | Nongovernmental Organization |
| NSA | National Security Agency |
| NSD-77 | National Security Directive 77 |
| NSC | National Security Council |
| ODA | Operational Detachment Alpha |
| OEF | Operation Enduring Freedom |
| OGA | Other Government Agency (the CIA, as referred to by the military) |
| OIG | Office of Inspector General (various agencies) |
| OLC | Office of Legal Counsel (DOJ) |
| OMS | Office of Medical Services (CIA) |
| OPR | Office of Professional Responsibility (DOJ) |
| OGC | Office of General Counsel (various agencies) |
| OSI | Open Society Institute |
| OSCE | Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe |
| OTSG | Office of the Surgeon General |
| ORNISS | National Registry Office for Classified Information (Romania) |
| POW | Prisoner of War |
| PENS | APA Presidential Task Force on Psychological Ethics and National Security |
| PFT | Pouring, Flicking or Tossing (Water) |
| PR | Personal Representative |
| PRB | Privilege Review Board |
| PHR | Physicians for Human Rights |
| PKK | Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan |
| PTSD | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |
| PUC | Person Under Control |
| SAP | Special Access Program |
| SCIF | Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility |
| SERE | Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape |
| SSCI | Senate Select Committee on Intelligence |
| SOP | Standard Operating Procedure |
| SSD | State Security Department (Lithuania) |
| TCP | The Constitution Project |
| TF | Task Force |
| TJAG | The Judge Advocate General |
| (U) | unclassified |
| UCMJ | Uniform Code of Military Justice |
| UDHR | Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| UECRB | Unlawful Enemy Combatant Review Board |
| UNAMA | United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan |
| USFOR-A | U.S. Forces, Afghanistan |
| WCA | War Crimes Act |
| WMA | World Medical Association |
