User:Colonel Warden/Fictional military organisations

This is a list of fictional military organizations, including military branches of political bodies or governments, fringe or guerrilla warfare groups, privately run militia, and autonomous and unconventional militaries, such as special forces, that do not fall under traditional military hierarchies. It is not to be confused with the governing body itself (i.e. Federation, Empire, etc.).

Armed Forces[edit]

Alliance of Democratic Nations (alternate history version of the WWII Allies) - Command & Conquer: Red Alert
The Alliance - Alliance of Humans, Elves, Dwarfs, Draenei, and Worgen - Warcraft series
Allied Nations - Advance Wars: Dual Strike
- Name also used in Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, Mercenaries 2: World In Flames, and Street Fighter: The Movie as a stand-in for United Nations peacekeepers.
Amalgamated Regional Militia - Larry Niven's Known Space series
Andorian Imperial Guard - Star Trek: Enterprise
Animal Guard - Animal Farm by George Orwell
Ankh-Morpork and Sto Plains Regiments - Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett
Armed Forces of the Federated Suns (AFFS), later Armed Forces of the Federated Commonwealth (AFFC) - Battletech
Armed Forces of the Republic of Quebec - Military of an independent Quebec in Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 series
Army of the Commonwealth - Red Faction II
Army of Light - Babylon 5
Army of Humanity - Legends of Dune
Army of the Jihad - Legends of Dune
Army of the Southern Cross - Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, Robotech
- Alpha Tactical Armored Corps (ATAC) - Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, Robotech
Asgard Fleet - Stargate SG-1
Bajoran Militia - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Black Hole Army - Advance Wars
Blue Fleet - Blue Submarine No. 6
Blue Moon Army - Advance Wars
Borogravian Army - Monstrous Regiment, Discworld
- 10th Borogravian Light Foot Infantry (nicknamed the "Ins-and-Outs" and the "Cheesemongers")
British Army - See List of fictional British regiments
The Holy Britannian Empire - Code Geass
Coalition of Ordered Governments (COG) - Gears of War
Capellan Confederation Armed Forces (CCAF) - Battletech
Cardassian Orders - Cardassian military divisions, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
CoDominium Space Navy and Marines - also known as the Fleet Falkenburg's Legion Series
Collective Enforcement Agency - Murphy's Gambit by Syne Mitchell
Colonial Forces -
- Colonial Marine Corps (Battlestar Galactica (re-imagining))
Colonial Navy/Earth Empire Navy - Colony Wars series
Combine Overwatch Humanoid Task Forces - Transhuman arm of the Combine occupation, Half-Life 2
ComStar Guards and Militia (ComGuard) - Battletech
Confederate Security Forces - Terran Confederation Military, StarCraft
Confederate States Armed Forces - C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
Confederation Navy - The Night's Dawn Trilogy
- also used in the Honor Harrington series for a different military force.
Contact - Military during Idiran-Culture War, The Culture
- Special Circumstances - military/intelligence arm of the Culture during peacetime
Crusaders - Final Fantasy X
Dinochrome Brigade - Keith Laumer's BOLO series
Dolletian Military - Final Fantasy VIII
Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery (DCMS) - Battletech
Earth Commonwealth Navy - I-War, aka Independence War
Earth Defense Force - Red Faction
Earth Defense Force - Dead Space
- Also used in Space Battleship Yamato and the derivative Star Blazers.
Earth Federal Forces - Universal Century Gundam
- - - Kojima Battalion - Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
      - 08th Mobile Suit Team - Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
  - The Immortal 4th - Gundam 0083
  - Tianem Fleet - Mobile Suit Gundam
EarthForce - Babylon 5
- EarthForce Marine Corps - Also known as GROPOS (Ground Pounders)
Earth Militia - Turn-A Gundam
Earth Sphere Federation - Mobile Suit Gundam 00
Earth Starfleet - predecessor to the UFP Starfleet, Star Trek: Enterprise
Estharian Military - Final Fantasy VIII
European Federation Enforcers Corps - Tom Clancy's EndWar
Exofleet - Exosquad
Fairy Air Force - Yukikaze
The Fighting Dukaki - Futurama
First Easter Mirage Knights - Five Star Stories
The Fish Speakers - God Emperor of Dune and succeeding novels
Federal Marshals - Military of The Alliance - Firefly
Foundation Fleet - The Foundation Series
Free Worlds League Military - Battletech
Galbadian Military - Final Fantasy VIII
Global Defense Initiative (GDI) - Command & Conquer
- 22nd Infantry Division - Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars
Grand Army of the Republic - Clone Trooper Army, Star Wars
Grayson Army - Honor Harrington series of novels
Grayson Space Navy (GSN) - Honor Harrington series of novels
Gungan Grand Army - Star Wars
Galactic Empire Armed Forces - Star Wars
- Emperor's Royal Guard
- Imperial Army
- Imperial Navy
- Imperial Starfighter Corps
- Imperial Stormtrooper Corps
Human Systems Alliance - Mass Effect
The Galactic Terran Alliance - GTA: Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War
The Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance - GTVA: Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War
The Guardian Unit of Nations (commonly known as "G.U.N.") - Sonic the Hedgehog series
The Helghast Armed Forces - Killzone
The High Guard - military forces of the Systems Commonwealth, Andromeda
Holy Iron Chain Knights - Berserk
The Honoured Matres - Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune
The Horde - Orc army, Warcraft series
The Host of the West The Lord of the Rings series
Galactic Patrol - Lensman series
Imperial Andermani Navy - Honor Harrington series
Imperial Legion - The Elder Scrolls
Imperial Navy - The Foundation Series
Imperial Space Navy - The Mote In God's Eye
Forces of the Imperium - Warhammer 40,000
- Adeptus Mechanicus
- Imperial Guard
- Imperial Inquisition
  - - Deathwatch.
    - Sisters of Battle
- Imperial Navy
- Space Marines (Adeptus Astartes), including
International Fleet - Ender's Game
Interplanetary Strategic Alliance (ISA) forces - Killzone
Isengard Uruk-hai Army - The Two Towers
Japanese Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) - Fictional or speculative depictions of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.
- 5th Army - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (PSP)
- 5121st Platoon - Gunparade March
- 801 TTS (Tactical Training Squadron) - 801 T.T.S. Airbats
- Assault Machine Troop - Full Metal Panic
- Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, Airborne Labor company - Patlabor series
- Japan Self-Defense Army Surveillance Squad (JSDA Watch) - Stand Alone Complex (PSP)
- Japan Strategic Self-Defense Forces (JSSDF) - Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Information Self-Defense Force (ISDF) - Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Jet Force - Jet Force Gemini
Kanbei's Imperial Forces - Yellow Comet Army, Advance Wars
Korean People's Army (KPA) - Fictional or speculative depictions of the Korean People's Army
- Division 18 (Military Intelligence) - Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
- Division 39 (Financiers, Businessmen and State Sponsored Mafia) - Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
Kibian Defense Forces - Starship Operators
Kingdom of Wolfkrone - Soul Calibur series
Kzinti fleets - Known Space series
Klingon Defense Force - Star Trek
Laburec (Abh Space Navy) - Crest of the Stars
The Last Alliance of Men and Elves - The Lord of the Rings
The Legion of Space from the works of Jack Williamson.
Lyran Alliance Armed Forces - Battletech
Forces of Mordor - Sauron's armies, The Lord of the Rings
Middle East Coalition - Battlefield 2
Naboo Security Forces - Star Wars: The Phantom Menance
Neosapien Fleet - Exosquad
Neo-Zeon - led by Haman Kahn, Double Zeta Gundam
New Yevon - Final Fantasy X-2
OMNI Enforcer (Oppose Militancy and Neutralize Invasion) - Gundam Seed
Orb Defense Forces (Orb Union) - Gundam Seed
Orange Star Army - Advance Wars
Pan Asian Collation - Battlefield 2142
Parliamentary Vasudan Navy - PVN: Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War
Pirate Fleet, Pirate Clans Forces, Exosquad
People's Navy (PN) - previously/later Republic of Haven Navy (RHN)
Repliforce - Mega Man X4
Peacekeepers - Farscape
Public Safety Maintenance (aka Shin-Ra Armed Forces) - Final Fantasy VII
- Deep Ground Soldiers - Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
- Turks aka Investigation Sector, General Affairs Department
Q-Stein Military-military of sentient vehicles from Seek and Destroy (2002 video game)
Rasalhague Kungsarmé - Royal Rasalhague Army - Battletech
Red Army - Fictional or speculative depictions of the Red Army
- Ocelot Unit, Spetsnaz - Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
- Soviet Far East Front Army - Ring of Red
Regular Space Service - The Serrano Legacy series by Elizabeth Moon
Republic of the Sphere Armed Forces (RAF) - Battletech
Robotech Defense Force - Robotech
Robotech Expeditionary Force - Robotech
Royal Manticoran Navy (RMN) - Honor Harrington series of novels
Royal Manticoran Army (RMA) - Honor Harrington series of novels
Royal Manticoran Marine Corps (RMMC) - Honor Harrington series of novels
Royal Spartan Army - Go Tell The Spartans and Prince of Sparta by S.M. Stirling and Jerry Pournelle
Sardaukar - House Corrino troops, Dune
Serdaristan Military - Battlefield: Bad Company
Shutoral National Defense Army - Maschinen Krieger ZbV 3000
The Scourge - Evil Undead army, Warcraft III
Space Troopers - Bill, the Galactic Hero
Spacefleet - Doctor Who: Virgin New Adventures
Star Command - Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
Starfleet - Star Trek
Star League Defense Force - Battletech
State Military - Fullmetal Alchemist
- State Alchemists
Taiidan High Guard fleet - Homeworld
Terran Confederation Navy - Wing Commander series
Terran Federation Mobile Infantry - Starship Troopers
Trade Federation Droid Army - Star Wars: The Phantom Menance
United Citizen Federation - Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers
United Earth Directorate Expeditionary Fleet - StarCraft
United Earth Forces - Martian Successor Nadesico
United Earth Oceans Organization - from the seaQuest DSV TV series
United Earth Sphere Alliance Forces - Gundam Wing
United Federation Military (United Federation of Predgio Towers) - Eureka Seven
- Ageha Squad
- SOF (Special Operations Force)
United Nations - Fictional or speculative depictions of United Nations peacekeeping and defense forces
- The United Nations Forces - Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Ghost, MOP (Multiple Operations Platform) - Ghost Squad
- United Nations Anti-Terrorism Coalition (Commonly referred to as UNATCO) - Deus Ex
- United Nations Exploratory Force (UNEF) - The Forever War
- United Nations Intelligence Taskforce - Doctor Who
- United Nations International Sanctions Enforcement Group - Mission Compromised
- United Nations Space Command (UNSC) - Halo
  - UNSCDF (United Nations Space Command Defence Forces)
  - Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
    - SPARTAN-II Program
- United Nations Space Command (UNSC) - Full Thrust
- United Nations Space Force (UNSF) - Zone of the Enders
- United Nations Space Navy - Military Force of the UN during Man-Kizn War I, Known Space
- United Nations Special Services Unit (UNSSU) - Amerika (TV miniseries)
- UN Protectorate Envoy Corps - Altered Carbon
- UN Spacy - Macross
United States Armed Forces - Fictional or speculative depictions of United States military organizations
- 45th Infantry Division - Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG
- 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital - M.A.S.H. film and TV series.
- AS Special Forces - Full Metal Panic
- CBDC - Syphon Filter series
- COSMOS (Children of Soldier Machine Organic System) - Spriggan
- Hazardous Environment Combat Unit - Half-Life and expansions
- Flying Hellfish squad - WWII "fightingest squad in the fightingest company in the third-fightingest battalion in the army," "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish" episode of The Simpsons
- Joint Strike Force - Tom Clancy's EndWar
- Machiner's Platoon - Spriggan (OVA)
- Team Red Light, Force Recon, United States Marine Corps - Extermination
- Unit 31 Planet Terror Grindhouse
- United States Colonial Marines (USCM) - Aliens
- United States Marine Corps Air-Space Cavalry - Space: Above and Beyond
- US Armored Corps - Spriggan
- Task Force Talon- Act of War: Direct Action
Warrior Monks - Final Fantasy X
Zanzibar Land Armed Forces - Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
ZAFT - Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
Zeon Military Force (ZMF) - Universal Century Gundam
- Zeon Space Attack Force
- Zeon Mobile Assault Force
- Zeon Earth Attack Force

Guerrilla, Revolutionary, and Terrorist Organizations[edit]

A21 - Full Metal Panic
A World with No Boundaries - Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War
Amalgam - Full Metal Panic
Anser al-Ra'id - Northern Zeki separatist movement, led by Mullah Qari Ra'id. Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers
Army of Chiron - Blue Submarine No. 6
Audobon Ballroom - Honor Harrington
African Liberation Front - Double Zeta Gundam (a real group by the same name exists)
Akatsuki - Naruto
Angel Wing - Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG
Anti-Earth Union Group (AEUG) - Zeta Gundam
Aslan's Army - The Chronicles of Narnia
AVALANCHE - Final Fantasy VII
Backdraft Organisation- Zoids: New Century Zero
Badan Empire- Kamen Rider Spirits
Bahji- Qumari Islamic extremist terrorist group. The West Wing
Bajor Resistance - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Barjack - Battle Angel Alita
Bioron - Mobile Detective Jiban
Black Ghost - Cyborg 009
Black Hole Army - Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising
- Bolt Guard - Advance Wars: Dual Strike
Black Satan - Kamen Rider Stronger
Black Widows - Spiral Zone
Blake Guard - Word of Blake militia, Battletech
Blue Brigade - Fullmetal Alchemist
Blue Cosmos - Gundam Seed
Brotherhood of Evil Mutants - Marvel Comics
Brotherhood of Nod - Command & Conquer
Browncoats - Independent Faction soldiers, Firefly
Cardassian Liberation Front - Cardassian Rebellion, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Consortium - Act of War
Crimson Jihad - True Lies
Deepground - Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
Forces of Chaos - Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000
- Chaos Space Marines
- The Lost and the Damned
- Beasts of Chaos
- Hordes of Chaos
Cobra - G.I. Joe
Confederacy of Independent Systems Droid Army - Star Wars
Crisis Empire- Kamen Rider Black RX
Dai-Shocker- Kamen Rider Decade
Darah Dan Doa (Blood and Prayer) - Indonesian terrorist group, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
Dark Brotherhood - The Elder Scrolls
Dawn Brigade - 24
Delza Army - Kamen Rider Stronger
Devil Army - also known as the Dark Army, G Gundam
Delaz Fleet - Gundam 0083
Desert Dawn - Gundam SEED
Destron - Kamen Rider V3
Dhar Jeheem - Syphon Filter: Omega Strain
Eridanus Human Rebels - Halo: The Fall of Reach and Halo: First Strike
Dogma Kingdom- Kamen Rider Super-1
E.V.I.L. (Every Villain is Lemons) - Spongebob Sqaurepants
Free Jaffa - Jaffa Resistance against the Goa'uld, Stargate SG-1
Free Wunderland Navy - Man-Kzin Wars, Known Space
The Fremen - Dune
Forest Owls - Final Fantasy VIII
Forgotten Army - Tom Clancy's EndWar
Freedom Party - Falkenburg's Legion books by Jerry Pournelle
Gekkostate - Eureka Seven
Galactor - Gatchaman
Geddon- Kamen Rider Amazon
Geldam - Kamen Rider
Gel-Shocker - Kamen Rider
Gorgom - Kamen Rider Black
Gilda Liberation Alliance - Najica Blitz Tactics
Gindran Liberation Front (GLF) - Metal Gear: Ghost Babel
Global Liberation Army (GLA) - Command & Conquer: Generals
Government of Darkness (G.O.D.) - Kamen Rider X
H.A.R.M. - No One Lives Forever
Helot Movement (SPLA) - Go Tell The Spartans and Prince of Sparta by S.M. Stirling and Jerry Pournelle
Help Earth - CHERUB: The Recruit , CHERUB: Divine Madness
Homeguard - Xenopohbic Human Terrorist Organization, Babylon 5
Homeworlds Resistance - Exosquad
Human Liberation Front (HLF) - Ghost in the Shell
- Green Tower - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Kokoku Brigade - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Huntsclan - American Dragon: Jake Long
Hureisenjin (Chosun Liberation Confederation in Korean) - 2009 Lost Memories
HYDRA - Marvel Comics
Individual Eleven - Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG
Indies - I-War, aka Independence War
Indigo Wolves - Ghost Squad
Japanese Liberation Front - Code Geass
Jenoma People's Army - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Jin-Dogma - Kamen Rider Super-1
Karaba - Zeta Gundam
Karma - Ring of Red
Kataron - Mobile Suit Gundam 00
Knights of Genetic Purity - Originally Gamma World, also used in Andromeda
Kreisau Circle-German resistance group from the Wolfenstein series
League of Free Worlds - Colony Wars series
Legion of Doom - DC Comics
ManDes (abbreviation of "Manifest Destiny") - Ultra-right-wing terrorist group in Northguard comic book
Mafat Revolutionary Group - The Mafat Conspiracy: Golgo 13 II
Maganac Corps - Gundam Wing
Mariemeia Army - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Maquis - Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager
Mavericks - Mega Man X
Mercenary Army - (Mercenary-backed Earth independence movement, Maschinen Krieger ZbV 3000
Millennium - Hellsing
Mission Hills Protective Association - Falkenburg's Legions series
Mujahideen Al-Zeki - Zekistani Al-Afad loyalist group, led by Mullah Abdul Hassan. Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers
Mutant Liberation Front - X-Force
Neo Kleit - Surveillance Kanshisha
Neo-Shocker- New Kamen Rider (SkyRider)
Neo-Terran Front (NTF) - led by Admiral Aken Bosch, FreeSpace 2
Neo-Zeon - led by Char Aznable, Gundam: Char's Counterattack
New World Brigade - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Northwest Secessionist Forces (NSF) - full name rarely used, Deus Ex)
Order of the Black Knights - Code Geass
OpFor - a Middle-eastern militia in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Padania Republic Faction- Gunslinger Girl
People's Eastern Revolution Front - Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel
People's Front of Judea - Monty Python's Life of Brian
The People's Liberation Party (one of its members oddly substitutes the word "party" with "army") - "The Resurrection" episode of the War of the Worlds TV series
People's Liberation Army of Venezuela (PLAV) - Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
People's Revolutionary Strike Force - The Enforcer
The Promise Hand - Haze
Quantum - criminal conspiracy in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace
Raiders - Sky Commanders
Reaganista Terrorist Movement - CHERUB: The General
Rebel Alliance - Star Wars
Red Faction - Red Faction
Red May - Angel Cop
Red Ribbon Army - Dragon Ball
Red Shadows - Action Force
Refugee Liberation Organization - Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG
The Resistance - V
The Resistance - Half-Life 2
Re'tu Rebels - Stargate SG-1
Revengencers - Metalocalypse
Sabotage Corps - Predecessor to Bureau of Sabotage, The Dosadi Experiment
Saint Wenceslas' Army - army of knights sleeping inside Blaník Mountain, from Czech king in the mountain legends
Second Wave - 24
Shadaloo/Shadowlaw - Street Fighter Alpha and Street Fighter II games
- Psycho Dolls
The Shadows - Splinter Cell, the novel
Shining Dawn - Spooks
Shocker (Sacred Hegemony of Cycle Kindred Evolutional Realm) - Kamen Rider
Silhouette - Deus Ex
Sodan - An elite 5000-year-old group (tribe) of Jaffa, rebels against the Goa'uld - Stargate SG-1
Sons of Big Boss - Metal Gear Solid
Sons of Earth - Rebel Colonists of Plateau, Known Space
Sons of Liberty - Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Sons of Korhal - StarCraft
The Sect - Mamoru Oshii's Kerberos saga drama, manga, films and anime including Jin-roh
SNA (Scottish National Army) - mentioned in brief and only as acronym, guerrilla group opposing Norsefire control in Aberdeen and Glasgow, V for Vendetta
Separatists - The Great Schism, Halo 2
Space Revolutionary Army - Gundam X
Space Forces of the Republic of Union - The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
SPECTRE - worldwide terrorist/criminal organization, James Bond
The Squad - Red Faction 2
Suliban Cabal - Star Trek: Enterprise
Terra Prime - Star Trek: Enterprise
Terran Rebellion - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Mirror universe)
Three Ships Alliance - Clyne Faction, Gundam Seed
Thor's Hammer - Silent Storm: Sentinels
Tok'ra - Renegade Goa'uld opposed to the evil system lords,Stargate SG-1
Tokyo People's Liberation League - AD Police manga
Trieze Faction - Rebel OZ faction supporting Trieze Khushrenada, Gundam Wing
True Way - Cardassian terrorist organization, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
The Red Army - Interesting Times (Discworld)
The River Pack - Falkenburg's Legions series
The Underground - Jak II
The People's Voice- Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
Ulster Liberation Army - Maoist/Irish nationalist terrorist group, Patriot Games
Ultranationalists - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Vodarek - Eureka Seven
Wild Seven - Battle Royale II: Requiem
Wolverines - Red Dawn
White Fang - Gundam Wing
XX - group of far-right conspirators in the Belgian comic book series XIII
Zekistan Liberation Front - Full Spectrum Warrior

Mercenary Organizations and Private Military Companies[edit]

21st Century Security Corporation - Dai-Guard
The A-Team - The A-Team
Angel Links - Outlaw Star, Angel Links
Allied Mayhem Incorporated (AMI) - Underground role-playing game
Armed Guardian Services (ARGUS), Incorporated - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Association of International Mercenaries (AIM) - Jagged Alliance computer game series
Artemis Global Security - Tom Clancy's HAWX HAWX
Band of Hawks - Berserk
Band of the Red Hand - The Wheel of Time
Band of Seven- Inuyasha
Barton's Bulldogs - Falkenburg's Legions series
Belltower Associates - Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Blood Pack - Mass Effect 2
Blue Suns - Mass Effect 2
Carrera's Wedge - Broken Angels
C.E.L.L - Crysis (series)
City Guardians - Mirai Sentai Timeranger
Civilian Military Provider S.M.S. - Macross Frontier Japanese animated T.V.series
Clawhammer Defense Industries - SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 2
The Cleaners - Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Dark Hunters - Bionicle
Dendarii Free Mercenaries - Vorkosigan Saga
Displace International - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Disposable Heroes, Inc. - Underground
Dorsai - Childe Cycle
Dreadnoks - G.I. Joe
Eclipse - Mass Effect 2
Eridani Light Horse - Battletech
EXOps - Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
Falkenberg's Legion - Falkenburg's Legions series by Jerry Pournelle
Flying Legion - Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Friendlies - Childe Cycle
Greil Mercenaries - Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
Global Cortex - Armored Core series
Gurlukovich mercenaries - Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Hammer's Slammers - Hammer's Slammers series by David Drake
Henkata, Inc. - Underground
High-risk United Nations Task-force (H.U.N.T.) - Rise of the Triad
Ikari Warriors - King of Fighters series
Jericho - FlashForward
The Kell Hounds - Battletech
Knight Sabers - Bubblegum Crisis
Kroot - Warhammer 40,000
Legionnaires - Battlefield: Bad Company
MacKenzie Military Assistance Corporation - Vatta's War
Mantel Corporation - Haze
Mithril - Full Metal Panic
Nergal Heavy Industries - Martian Successor Nadesico
National Defence Family - Patlabor 2
Oseran Mercenaries - Vorkosigan Saga
Outer Heaven - Metal Gear
The PMC - Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
Ravens - Armored Core series
Ravenwood - JerichoTV series
The Red Alert Syndicate - Mega Man X7
Red Bianco - Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG
SeeDs- Final Fantasy VIII
Sentinels - Silent Storm
Serpent Tail - Gundam SEED Astray
Shadow Element - SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 2
Simmons Global Management, Ltd. - ''Underground
Silver Guardians - Power Rangers Time Force
Tagon's Toughs -Schlock Mercenary
Star Fox - Star Fox series
Star Wolf - Star Fox series
Tagon's Toughs - Schlock Mercenary
Trans-World Devastation, Inc. - Underground
TWO: Trans World Operations - Army of TWO
Turanic Raiders - Homeworld
Wolf's Dragoons - Battletech
Wulong mercenaries - Front Mission 3
The Union - mercenary organization in Raymond Benson novels.
Universal Petroleum - Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
Ultra-Box - Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Weisjaeger, Inc. - Underground
Vulture - Gundam X
X-Corporation - X-Men
X Hunters- Mega Man X2
Merryweather Security - Grand Theft Auto V

Militias and Other Paramilitary Organizations[edit]

American Information Bureau - Vampire Rain
Alliance for Popular Resistance (APR) - Far Cry 2
America Will Break (AWB) - Guns of the South
ARCAM Corporation - Spriggan
- ARCAM Private Army
BAHRAM Militia Group - Zone of the Enders
Boskone - Lensman
Capital Area Security Police Agency - Mamoru Oshii's Kerberos saga films and manga and Jin-roh
Celestial Being - Mobile Suit Gundam 00
Coral Snake- 24 (A seven man Special Forces team recruited by NSA Director Roger Stanton in the second season, to track and eliminate the Nuclear Device)
CRI Cosmectics - Najica Blitz Tactics
Crossbone Vanguard - Meitzer Ronah's, and later Berah Ronah's, private army, Gundam F-91
Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) - 24
Digital Accident Tactics Squad (DATS) - Digimon Data Squad
The Digidestined - Digimon
Groupe Fleur de Paris - Sakura Wars
Freedom Party Guards - American Empire, Settling Accounts'
Hellsing Organization - Hellsing
The Initiative- Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
International Science Organization (ISO) - Gatchaman
Jamaican Pirates - Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
League Militaire - V Gundam
- Les Soldats (The Soldiers) - Noir
March 33 - Conflict: Global Storm
Maverick Hunters - Mega Man X
Mikado Corporation - The Bouncer
Military Police - Paramilitary forces of Paradigm City, Big O
Mishima Enterprises - Tekken series
- Tekken Force
MJ-12 - Spriggan
New York Fighting Troupe - Sakura Wars
National Militia - Zekistani paramilitary forces being trained by the Coalition. Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers
New Texas Godfearing Militia - Rules of Engagement by Elizabeth Moon
NESTS - King of Fighters series
Nightwatch - Babylon 5
Organization - Rouge
Pacific Medical - Najica Blitz Tactics
Preventers - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Raven Nation - First Wave
Repliforce - Mega Man X
Red Ribbon Army - Dragon Ball
Red Shield - Blood+
Shinba Industrials - Najica Blitz Tactics
Shinra - Namco x Capcom
Shuffle Alliance - G-Gundam
Social Welfare Agency - Gunslinger Girl
Stalwarts - American Empire, Settling Accounts
S.T.A.R.S. (Special Tactics And Rescue Squads) Paramilitary Law Enforcement Agency in the Resident Evil series.
Teikoku Kagekidan - Sakura Wars
Task Force X
- Checkmate - Checkmate
- Suicide Squad - Suicide Squad
TERRA - RahXephon
Tech-Com - Terminator series
The Woodchuck Militia - Scrooge McDuck universe
United Front for Liberation and Labour - Far Cry 2
Umbrella Corporation - Resident Evil
UNIT- Doctor Who
UN Special Agency NERV - Neon Genesis Evangelion
World Regenesis Organization - Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
X-Force - X-Force
Zwölf - Blassreiter

Special Forces[edit]

13th Autonomous Fleet - Earth Federation Newtype Corps, Mobile Suit Gundam
303rd Logistical Studies Unit - The Unit
A-Laws - Mobile Suit Gundam 00
Action Force - Action force
Ageha Squadron - Anti-Coralian task force, Eureka Seven
Anbu Black Ops - Naruto
Anti-Kouma Squad - Tai-Kouma Butai 対降魔部隊, Sakura Wars
ARC Troopers - Advanced Recon Commandos, Star Wars: Clone Wars
AX - Trinity Blood
Black Chamber - Metal Gear: Ghost Babel
Black Guard-SS elite unit and bodyguards of Heinrich Himmler from Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Black Tri-Stars - Group of Ace Zeon pilots, Mobile Suit Gundam
Black Wind Brigade - Elite Zekistani military unit controlled by Al-Hamal, Al-Afad's son. Full Spectrum Warrior
Canaries - Red Dwarf
Centurions - Centurions
Cobra unit - Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Commando Unit Task Force 724 - Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
Cyclops Commandos - Zeon special forces squad, Gundam 0080
Dead Cell - Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Deathstalkers World of Warcraft
Delta Red - Super Street Fighter 2
Elite Guard - elite all-female unit of the SS Paranormal Division from "Return to Castle Wolfenstein" and Wolfenstein (2009)
F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) - F.E.A.R.
FORCE:Ground - Hyperion Cantos
FOXHOUND - Metal Gear series
Force Operation X (FOX) Unit - Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
G.I. Joe - G.I. Joe
The Ghosts- US Army Green Berets from D Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group. Ghost Recon
Guardian Units of the Nation (G.U.N.) - Sonic Adventure 2, Shadow the Hedgehog
The Human Defense Corps - DC Comics
Japanese Special Self-Defense Forces (JSSDF) - Gasaraki
Knights of Rounds - Code Geass
Londo Bell - Gundam: Char's Counterattack
Loyal Army - Ring of Red
Military Assault Command Operations (MACO) - Star Trek: Enterprise
Next-Generation Special Forces - Genome Army, Metal Gear Solid
October Guard - G.I. Joe
Officio Assassinorum - Warhammer 40,000
Pax Swiss Guard - Hyperion Cantos
Peregrine Falcons - Metal Slug series
Phantom Pain -Gundam Seed Destiny
Rainbow - Rainbow Six
Rapid Response Tactical Squad (RRTS) - Doom
Red Guard - Ring of Red
Republic Clone Commandos - Star Wars: Republic Commando
- Delta Squad - Star Wars: Republic Commando
Science Ninja Team - Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
Shadow Company - CIA-trained mercenaries during the Vietnam War, Lethal Weapon
Shadow Sword - Surveillance Kanshisha
Shadownet - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
S.H.I.E.L.D. - Marvel Comics
SOLDIER - Final Fantasy VII
Sopot Special Forces - Red Faction II
OZ known as The Specials - Gundam Wing
The Shattered Hand - World of Warcraft
Special Tactical Force (STF) - Crisis Zone
Splinter Cell - Splinter Cell
Squad Zero of the Order of the Black Knights - Code Geass
Stargate Command - Stargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis
- SG-1 Exploration team
- Atlantis Expedition Security and Military personnel are nominally under SGC command.
Special Police DekaRanger - Tokusou Sentai DekaRanger
STRIKER - Tom Clancy's Op-Center
Super Hero Operational Command and Control (SHOCC) - Marshal Law
Task Force 141 - Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 2
Task Force Talon - Act of War
Toa Various Teams - Bionicle
United Airforce Overtech Hardware (UAOH) - Chouriki Sentai Ohranger
United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition (UNATCO) - full name rarely used, Deus Ex
Umibozu - Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex
X-Hunters - Mega Man X2
Zone Riders - Spiral Zone

Warrior castes and other culturally-based fighting forces[edit]

Aspect Shrine - Eldar Warrior cults, Warhammer 40,000
Death Cults- Warhammer 40,000
Dark Eldar Forces - Warhammer 40,000

Dark Templar - a sundered Protoss culture, StarCraft

Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery - Buke (Warrior) caste of the Draconis Combine, Battletech
Tau Castes and Auxiliaries, Warhammer 40,000
- Kroot - Alien mercenaries
- Vespid Stingwings - Alien assault teams
Harlequins - Eldar warrior sub-group, Warhammer 40,000
Fleet of Particular Justice - Covenant fleet, Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2
The Flood - A parasitic hivemind, Halo
The Jaffa - Goa'uld military strength, Stargate SG-1
The Jedi Order -Star Wars
Kull Warriors - Goa'uld System Lord Anubis' Shock Troops, Stargate SG-1
The Jem'Hadar - The Dominion's military branch, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
The Locust Horde - Gears of War
Necrons - Warhammer 40,000
Ork Waaaghs! - Warhammer 40,000
Rangers - Also known as Anla'Shok, Babylon 5
Templar - Protoss military and explorer caste, StarCraft
Tyranid Swarms - Warhammer 40,000
Warrior Caste - Minbari military, Babylon 5
Warrior Caste - Military caste of the various Clans, Battletech
Yuuzhan Vong Warrior Caste - Military caste of the Yuuzhan Vong. Star Wars
Zentradi - Proxy soldiers for the Protoculture, The Super Dimension Fortress Macross
Zentraedi - Clone soldiers for the Robotech Masters, Robotech
Zerg Broods - StarCraft

Criminal Organizations and Gangs[edit]

Capelli Family - Pursuit Force
Convicts - Pursuit Force , Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice
Dark Sun - CHERUB: Dark Sun
Favela Gang - Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 2
Keith Moore's Gang (KMG) - CHERUB: Class A
Mad Dogs Crew - CHERUB: Mad Dogs
Raiders - Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice
Runts - CHERUB: Mad Dogs
Slasher Boys - CHERUB: Mad Dogs
The Spangled Mob - Diamonds Are Forever
The Syndicate - Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice
The Mad Gear Gang-Final Fight
The Skull Cross Gang-Final Fight 3