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I want to know if it is correct to treat AF as a proper name and thus write "AF's concept" or if I must take the words of the initialism into consideration and write "AFs' (as I would write "Armed Forces' concept of protection" if I didn't use the initialism).

The link provided gave me conflicting answers about which way is right, and the main issue in the argumentation seemed to me to be the dubble s-es.

Edvin
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  • AFAIK there shouldn't be an apostrophe. And "s" shoukd be omitted as well if the acronym stands for something that is already plural – Jodes May 04 '17 at 07:38
  • Maybe worth looking at this question https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/55970/plurals-of-acronyms-letters-numbers-use-an-apostrophe-or-not – Bhoomika Arora May 04 '17 at 07:46
  • Jodes -. you mean I should write "AF concept of defence"? – Edvin May 04 '17 at 07:52
  • Sorry my mistake - I missed you want possessive. I'd make it possessive like a normal word. "AF's concept of defence" . But it does feel a bit weird. – Jodes May 04 '17 at 08:00

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