List of Abbreviations
AAA Actor and audience analysis
AIDS Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
AMP Affect-misattribution procedure
APA American Psychological Association
ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations
AUM Anxiety/uncertainty management theory
BBC British Broadcasting Corporation
BMD Ballistic missile defense
CAF Canadian Armed Forces
CCP Chinese Communist Party
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
C4ISR Command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CIDB Canadian Incidents Database
CNO Computer network operations
COGAT Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (Israel)
COTS Commercial off-the-shelf
CPD Central Propaganda Department (People’s Republic of China)
CPI Cyber Power Index
CSE Communications Security Establishment
CSIS Canadian Security Intelligence Service
DCCC Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
DDOS Distributed denial of service
D5 Degrade, deny, disrupt, destroy, deceive
DND Department of National Defence
DOD Department of Defense
DRDC Defence Research and Development Canada
EC Error choice
EFP Enhanced Forward Presence (NATO)
EP Evaluative priming
EU European Union
EW Electronic warfare
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
5G Fifth-generation telecommunications network
FSB Federal’naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Federal Security Service; Russian internal security agency)
FTF Foreign terrorist fighters
G7 Group of Seven
G20 Group of Twenty
GAC Global Affairs Canada
GGE Group of Governmental Experts
GRM Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism
GRU Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie (Main Intelligence Directorate; Soviet and Russian military intelligence)
HIV Human immunodeficiency virus
IAF Israeli Air Force
IAT Implicit association task
ICC International Criminal Court
ICS/SCADA Industrial control systems/supervisory control and data acquisition
IDF Israel Defense Forces
IE Information environment
IHL International humanitarian law
Incel Involuntary celibate
IO Information operation
IR International relations
IRA Internet Research Agency
IRB Institutional Review Board
ISIS Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
IT Information technology
ITW/AA Integrated tactical warning and attack assessment
IW Information warfare
KGB Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security; Soviet internal security and foreign intelligence agency)
LET Lost email technique
LLT Lost letter technique
LW Legal warfare
MAD Mutually assured destruction
MIIT Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (People’s Republic of China)
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NCSA National Cyber Security Authority (Israel)
NC3 Nuclear command, control, and communication
NDM Naturalistic decision making
NIS New Israeli shekel
NIST National Institute of Standards
OAS Organization of American States
ODNI Office of the Director of National Intelligence
OSCE Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
OSINT Open-source intelligence
OST Ontological security theory
PGS Prompt global strike
PLA People’s Liberation Army (People’s Republic of China)
PRC People’s Republic of China
PRC Popular Resistance Committees (Gaza)
PSYOPS Psychological operations
QR Quick response
R&D Research and development
RCMP Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RPG Rocket-propelled grenade
RRM Rapid response mechanism
RT Russian state-controlled media organization (formerly known as Russia Today)
SCO Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
SDF Syrian Democratic Forces
SIOP Single integrated operational plan
SITE Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections
SSF Strategic Support Force
SSHRC Social Science and Humanities Research Council
START Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
UN United Nations
UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
USCYBERCOM United States Cyber Command
VPN Virtual private network
VTS Voice of the Strait
VTSM Violent transnational social movements
VUCA Volatile, uncertain, chaotic, and ambiguous
WHO World Health Organization
WMD Weapons of mass destruction