(Full cites of treaties appear in Appendix VI)

A

• 1977 Additional Protocols: AP/I and AP/II.
• AP/I: Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I).
• AP/II: Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II).
• AP/III: Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem (Protocol III).
• Art(s).: Article(s).
• AWACS: Airborne Warning and Control System.

B

• BWC: UN Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction.

C

• Canadian Joint Doctrine Manual: Law of Armed Conflict at the Operational and Tactical Levels, Joint Doctrine Manual Issued on Authority of the Chief of Defence Staff.^[12]
• CCW: UN Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects.
• CNA: Computer Network Attack.
• Commentary on the HRAW: Commission of Jurists to Consider and Report Upon the Review of the Rules of Warfare, General Report.^[13]
• Commentary on the SRM/ACS: Explanation of the San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea.^[14]
• CWC: Paris Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction.

D

• DoD Dictionary of Military Terms: Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms.^[15]

E

• EEZ: Exclusive Economic Zone.
• ENMOD Convention: UN Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques.
• EW: Electronic Warfare.

F

• fn.: footnote.

G

• 1925 Gas Protocol: Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.
• GC/I: Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field.
• GC/II: Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea.
• GC/III: Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
• GC/IV: Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.
• 1949 Geneva Conventions: GC/I, GC/II, GC/III and GC/IV
• German ZDv: Joint Services Regulations (ZDv) 15/2, German Bundeswehr, 1992.

H

• 1899 Hague Convention (II): Hague Convention (II) with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land.
• 1899 Hague Regulations: Hague Regulations respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, Annex to 1899 Hague Convention (II).
• 1899 Hague Declaration (IV,2): Hague Declaration (IV, 2) Concerning Asphyxiating Gases.
• 1907 Hague Convention (IV): Hague Convention (IV) Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land.
• 1907 Hague Regulations: Hague Regulations respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, Annex to 1907 Hague Convention (IV).
• 1907 Hague Convention (V): Hague Convention (V) Respecting the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War on Land.
• 1907 Hague Convention (VIII): Hague Convention (VIII) relative to the Laying of Automatic Submarine Contact Mines.
• 1907 Hague Convention (XIII): Hague Convention (XIII) Concerning the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers in Naval War.
• 1954 Hague Convention: Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.
• HRAW: Hague Rules of Air Warfare, Drafted by a Commission of Jurists at The Hague, 1923.^[16]

I

• ICAO: International Civil Aviation Organization.
• ICC: International Criminal Court.
• ICJ: International Court of Justice.
• ICJ Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion: International Court of Justice, Advisory Opinion, Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons.^[17]
• ICRC: International Committee of the Red Cross.
• ICRC Commentary on AP/I: Commentary on the Additional Protocols of 8 June 1977 to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949.^[18]
• ICRC Customary IHL Study: Customary International Humanitarian Law, Volume I: Rules.^[19]
• ICRC Interpretive Guidance: Interpretive Guidance on the Notion of Direct Participation in Hostilities under International Humanitarian Law.^[20]
• ICTY: International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
• ICTR: International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
• IFF: Identification, Friend or Foe.
• ILM: International Legal Materials.

L

• Laws of Armed Conflicts: The Laws of Armed Conflicts: A Collection of Conventions, Resolutions and Other Documents.^[21]
• 1909 London Declaration: London Declaration Concerning the Laws of Naval War.
• LNTS: League of Nations Treaty Series.

N

• NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
• NATO Glossary of Terms and Definitions: NATO Glossary of Terms and Definitions.^[22]
• NIAC Manual on SRM/ACS: Manual on the Law of Non-International Armed Conflict: With Commentary.^[23]
• NOTAM: Notice to Airmen.
• NWP: The Commander’s Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations.^[24]

O

• Optional Protocol to the UN Safety Convention: Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel.
• 1997 Ottawa Convention: Ottawa Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction.

P

• Para(s).: paragraph(s).
• 1856 Paris Declaration: Declaration Respecting Maritime Law.
• POW: Prisoner of War.
• 1980 Protocol I to the CCW: Protocol on Non-Detectable Fragments.
• 1980 Protocol III to the CCW: Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons.
• 2003 Protocol V to the CCW: Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War.

R

• Roerich Pact: Washington Treaty on the Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments.
• Rome Statute of the ICC: Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

S

• SAR: Search and Rescue
• SEAD: Suppression of Enemy Air Defences.
• Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention: Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.
• SRM/ACS: San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea.^[25]
• 1868 St. Petersburg Declaration: Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Explosive Projectiles Under 400 Grammes Weight.

U

• UAV: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
• UCAV: Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle.
• UK Manual: The Manual of the Law of Armed Conflict. UK Ministry Of Defence.^[26]
• UN Charter: Charter of the United Nations.
• US: United States.
• UNCLOS: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
• UN Safety Convention: Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel.
• UNTS: United Nations Treaty Series.
• fn.: footnote.
• fn.: footnote.

W

• WWI: First World War.
• WWII: Second World War.

12. B-GJ-005-104/FP-021, 2001.
13. 1923, reprinted in 32 American Journal of International Law Supplement 1 (1938).
14. Prepared by International Lawyers and Naval Experts convened by the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, Adopted in June 1994, Cambridge University Press (1995).
15. Joint Publication 1-02, 2001 (As amended through 31 October 2009).
16. Laws of Armed Conflicts 315.
17. [1996] ICJ Reports 226.
18. Y. Sandoz, Ch. Swinarski and B. Zimmermann (eds.), ICRC, Martinus Nijhoff (1987).
19. ICRC, J-M Henckaerts and L. Doswald-Beck, Cambridge University Press (2005).
20. ICRC (2009).
21. D. Schindler and J. Toman (eds.), 4th edition, Martinus Nijhoff (2004).
22. Listing terms of military significance and their definitions for use in NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO Standardization Agency (NSA), AAP-6 (2009).
23. International Institute of Humanitarian Law, M. Schmitt, C. Garraway and Y. Dinstein, 36 Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, Special Supplement (2006).
24. NWP 1-14M, U.S. Navy — U.S. Marine Corps — U.S. Coast Guard, July 2007 Edition.
25. Prepared by International Lawyers and Naval Experts convened by the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, Cambridge University Press (1995).
26. Oxford University Press (2004).