| ABM | - | Anti-Ballistic Missile |
| ACE | - | Allied Command Europe |
| ACLANT | - | Allied Command Atlantic |
| ABC | - | Atomic, Biological, Chemical |
| AEW | - | Airborne Early Warning |
| AFCENT | - | Allied Forces Central Europe |
| AFNORTHWEST | - | Allied Forces Northwestern Europe |
| AFSOUTH | - | Allied Forces Southern Europe |
| AFS | - | Air Force Station |
| AIRNORTHWEST | - | PSC for Air Forces, Northwestern Europe |
| ALCM | - | Air-launched Cruise Missile |
| AMF | - | Allied Command Europe Mobile Force |
| AMRAAM | - | Advanced medium-range air-to-airmissile |
| ARRC | - | Ace Rapid Reaction Corps |
| AS | - | Air Station |
| ASBM | - | Air-to-Surface Ballistic Missile |
| ASM | - | Air-to-Surface Missile |
| ASRAAM | - | Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile |
| ASW | - | Anti-Submarine Warfare |
| AWACS | - | Airborne Warning and Control System |
| BALTAP | - | Baltic Approaches |
| Brig | - | Brigade |
| C 3 | - | Consultation, Command and Control |
| C&W | - | Control and Warning |
| CCIS | - | Command, control and information system |
| CDE | - | Conference on Disarmament in Europe |
| CFE | - | Conventional Forces in Europe (treaty on conventional force reductions in Europe) |
| CFSP | - | Common Foreign and Security Policy |
| CHOD | - | Chief of Defence |
| CINCNORTHWEST | - | Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Northwestern Europe |
| CJTF | - | Combined Joint Task Forces |
| COB | - | Collocated Operating Bases |
| CSBM | - | Confidence and Security Building Measures |
| COMSONOR | - | Commander Allied Forces South Norway |
| DEFCOMNON | - | Defence Command North Norway |
| DEFCOM-SONOR | - | Defence Command South Norway |
| DC | - | District Command |
| DD | - | Defence District |
| DPC | - | Defence Planning Committee in NATO |
| EAPC | - | Euro Atlantic Partnership Council |
| EU | - | The European Union |
| EW | - | Electronic Warfare |
| EW | - | Early Warning |
| EPC | - | European Political Cooperation |
| ESDI | - | European Security and Defence Identity |
| FAWEU | - | Forces Answerable to the WEU |
| FNI | - | Fridtjof Nansens Institutt |
| FROG | - | Free Rocket Over Ground |
| GSV | - | Garrison in Sør-Varanger |
| HG | - | Home Guard |
| HQ | - | Headquarters |
| HQ DEFCOM | - | Headquarters Defence Command |
| IAEA | - | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| IAU | - | Infrastructure Accounting Unit (1 IAU = ca. NOK 26) |
| IFOR | - | NATO Implementation Force (in Bosnia-Hercegovina) |
| IISS | - | International Institute for Strategic Studies (London) |
| IMS | - | International Military Staff (NATO) |
| INF | - | Intermediate Nuclear Forces |
| IRF | - | Immediate Reaction Force |
| IS | - | International Staff (NATOs civil secretariat) |
| LDC | - | Land Defence Command |
| LDD | - | Land Defence District |
| MAS | - | Main Air Station |
| MD | - | Military District |
| MEB | - | Marine Expeditionary Brigade (previously MAB Marine Amphibious Brigade) |
| MFO | - | Multinational Force and Observers |
| MIRV | - | Multiple Independently-Targetable Re-entry Vehicle |
| MNC | - | Major NATO Command |
| MOD | - | Ministry of Defence |
| MoU | - | Memorandum of Understanding |
| MRBM | - | Medium-Range Ballistic Missile |
| MSC | - | Major Subordinate Command |
| MTB | - | Missile/Motor Torpedo Boat |
| NAC | - | North Atlantic Council |
| NACC | - | North Atlantic Cooperation Council |
| NAEW | - | NATO Airborne Early Warning |
| NAMSA | - | NATO Materiel Supply Agency |
| NATO | - | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NAVNORTHWEST | - | PSC for Naval Forces |
| NBC | - | Nuclear/Biological/Chemical |
| NCF | - | NATO Composite Force |
| ND | - | Naval District |
| NORCCIS | - | Norwegian Command, Control and Information System |
| NPG | - | Nuclear Planning Group |
| NPT | - | Non-Proliferation Treaty |
| NST | - | Nuclear and Space Arms Talks |
| NUPI | - | Norwegian Institute of International Affairs |
| OMG | - | Operational Manoeuvre Group |
| OSCE | - | Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe |
| PfP | - | Partnership for Peace |
| PJC | - | Permanent Joint Council |
| PSC | - | Principal Subordinate Command |
| PSC NORTH | - | Principal Subordinate CommandNorth |
| RC | - | Regional Command |
| RRF | - | Rapid Reaction Forces (in NATO) |
| PRIO | - | Peace Research Institute, Oslo |
| RRP | - | Rapid Reinforcement Plan |
| SACEUR | - | Supreme Allied Commander Europe |
| SACLANT | - | Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic |
| SALT | - | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
| SAM | - | Surface-to-Air Missile |
| SCANCOY | - | Scandinavian Company (FYROM) |
| SCG | - | Special Consultative Group |
| SCNE | - | Strategic Command Northern Europe |
| SDI | - | Strategic Defense Initiative |
| SFOR | - | Stabilisation Force |
| SHAPE | - | Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe |
| SLBM | - | Submarine-Launched BallisticMissiles |
| SLCM | - | Sea-Launched Cruise Missile |
| SLOC | - | Sea-Lines of Communication (across the Atlantic) |
| SRBM | - | Short-Range Ballistic Missiles |
| SRINF | - | Short-Range Intermediate Nuclear Forces |
| SSBN | - | Ballistic Missile Nuclear Submarine |
| SSM | - | Surface-to-Surface Missile |
| SSN | - | Submarine, nuclear |
| START | - | Strategic Arms Reduction Talks |
| STOL | - | Short Take-off and Landing |
| TADCOM | - | Tactical Digital Communications System |
| TVD | - | Teatr Voyennykh Deystviy (Russian, meaning geographically divided theatre of strategic operations) |
| UNIFIL | - | United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon |
| UNMOP | - | United Nations Mission of Observers in Prebanka |
| UNPREDEP | - | United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (FYROM) |
| UNPROFOR | - | United Nations Protection Force (former Yugoslavia) |
| UNTAES | - | United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Siavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium |
| UNTSO | - | United Nations Truce Supervisory Organization |
| USMC | - | US Marine Corps |
| WEAG | - | Western European Armaments Group |
| WEU | - | West European Union |
