| AAK | Aleanca për Ardhmërinë e Kosovës (Alliance for the Future of Kosovo) |
| AFBiH | Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| ATO | Anti-Terror Operation |
| BiH | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| C4ISR | command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance |
| CHoD | chief of defense |
| CNRT | Congresso Nacional de Reconstrução de Timor (National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction) |
| CPA | Coalition Provisional Authority |
| CPATT | Civilian Police Assistance Training Team |
| DRC | Defense Reform Commission |
| EU | European Union |
| EULEX | EU Rule of Law Mission |
| EUPM | EU Police Mission |
| F-FDTL | Falintil-Forcas Defensa Timor Lorosae |
| ICG | International Crisis Group |
| IEBL | inter-entity boundary line |
| IPS | Iraqi Police Service |
| ISIS | Islamic State of Iraq and Syria |
| JIAS | Joint Interim Administrative Structure |
| JNA | Jugoslovenska narodna armija (Yugoslav People’s Army) |
| KFOR | Kosovo Force |
| KLA | Kosovo Liberation Army |
| LDK | Lidhja Demokratike e Kosovës (Democratic League of Kosovo) |
| MNSTC-I | Multi-National Security Training Command-Iraq |
| MoD | Ministry of Defense |
| MoI | Ministry of Interior |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| OHR | Office of the High Representative |
| ORHA | Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance |
| OSCE | Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe |
| PDK | Partia Demokratike e Kosovës (Democratic Party of Kosovo) |
| PfP | Partnership for Peace |
| PISG | Provisional Institutions of Self-Government |
| PNTL | Polisia Nasional Timor-Leste (National Police of Timor-Leste) |
| PRC | Police Restructuring Commission |
| PSF | Philippine Security Forces |
| PTT | police transition team |
| RS | Republika Srpska |
| RSNA | RS National Assembly |
| SAA | Stabilization and Association Agreement |
| SBU | Sluzhba bezpeky Ukrayiny (Security Service of Ukraine) |
| SCIRI | Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq |
| SDB | Strategic Defense Bulletin |
| SDO | State Defense Order |
| SDS | Srpska demokratska stranka (Serb Democratic Party) |
| SFOR | Stabilization Force |
| SNSD | Savez nezavisnih socijaldemokrata (Alliance of Independent Social Democrats) |
| SoI | Sons of Iraq |
| SRSG | special representative of the secretary-general |
| TAL | Transitional Administrative Law |
| VF | Vojska Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine (Army of the Federation of BiH) |
| VRS | Vojska Republike Srpske (Army of the RS) |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNMIK | UN Mission in Kosovo |
| UNMISET | UN Mission in Support of East Timor |
| UNTAET | UN Transitional Administration in East Timor |
