| adf | Australian Defence Force |
| ai | Artificial Intelligence |
| ap 1 | 1977 Additional Protocol i to the Geneva Convention |
| ap 2 | 1977 Additional Protocol ii to the Geneva Conventions |
| att | Arms Trade Treaty |
| aws | Autonomous Weapons Systems |
| bcw | Biological Weapons Convention |
| ccw | United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons |
| cil | Customary International Law |
| darpa | Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| dcdc | Development Concepts and Doctrine Centre |
| dstg | Defence Science and Technology Group |
| eots | Electro-Optical Targeting System |
| erw | Explosive Remnants of War |
| gge | Group of Governmental Experts |
| gps | Global Positioning System |
| iac | International Armed Conflict |
| icc | International Criminal Court |
| icj | International Court of Justice |
| icrc | International Committee of the Red Cross |
| ictr | International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |
| icty | International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia |
| ihl | International Humanitarian Law |
| ihrl | International Human Rights Law |
| laws | Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems |
| loac | Law of Armed Conflict |
| MoD | Ministry of Defence |
| nlw | Non-lethal Weapons |
| nato | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| ngo | Non-governmental Organisation |
| niac | Non-International Armed Conflict |
| roe | Rules of Engagement |
| si/us | Superfluous Injury or Unnecessary Suffering |
| sipri | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute |
| tasdcrc | Defence Trusted Autonomous Systems Defence Cooperative Research Centre |
| ttps | Tactics, Techniques and Procedures |
Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles |
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| UK | United Kingdom |
| UN | United Nations |
| US | United States |
| ww1 | First World War |
| ww2 | Second World War |