Acronyms

A lot of people like to jump on the military about the plethora of acronyms, but I like to point out that the military picked up this nasty habit from baseball and the source of this contamination is Major General Abner Doubleday, who was at Fort Sumpter and fought at the Battle of Gettysburg.  He brought the contagion with him.  That said, here is a particularly viral form of the disease.

This chart is product of the war in Iraq, about two years ago.  Apparently an analyst in the TOC was bored one night and went to the on-line vocabulary list and came up with this assessment.  That is what analysts do.  They sort through reams of data to look for correlations and sometimes even causations.

Having put up this chart, I will note that acronyms are very helpful in shortening discussions of technical terms that can be quite long.  But, that means the talk is all "inside baseball".

Regards  —  Cliff