List of fictional military organizations

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This is a List of fictional military organizations, including military branches of political bodies or governments, fringe or guerrilla 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).

1 Armed Forces
2 Guerrilla, Revolutionary, and Terrorist Organizations
3 Mercenary Organizations and Private Military Companies
4 Militias and Other Paramilitary Organizations
5 Special Forces
6 Warrior castes and other culturally-based fighting forces
7 See also

[edit] Armed Forces

Alliance of Democratic Nations - Command and Conquer: Red Alert
The Alliance - Alliance of Humans, Elves and Dwarfs Warcraft series
- Silverwing Sentinels
- League of Arathor
- Stormpike Guard
Allied Nations - Advance Wars: Dual Strike
- Name also used in Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction 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
Ankh-Morpork and Sto Plains Regiments - Discworld novels
- 35th Llamadosian Foot
- Duke of Eorle's First Heavy Infantry (nicknamed the "Pheasant Pluckers")
- Duke of Quirm's Middleweight Infantry
- Lord Selachii's Light Infantry
- Lord Venturi's Heavy Infantry
- Lord Venturi's Medium Dragoons
- Quirm Lancers
- Royal Sto Plains Riflers (named from their habit of "rifling" through the enemy's pockets after battle)
- Sir Samuel Vimes' First of Foot
Armed Forces of the Federated Suns (AFFS), later Armed Forces of the Federated Commonwealth (AFFC) - Battletech
Armed Forces Union of Civilian Teachers (AFUCT) - in the naval satire One of the Guys by Robert Clark Young
Armed Forces of the Republic of Quebec - Military force 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 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
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
Burning Legion - Warcraft III
Coalition of Ordered Governments (COG) - Gears of War
Capellan Confederation Armed Forces (CCAF) - Battletech
Cardassian Orders - Cardassian military divisions, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Collective Enforcement Agency - Murphy's Gambit by Syne Mitchell
Colonial Fleet - Battlestar Galactica (re-imagining)
Colonial Navy - Original Battlestar Galactica
- Colonial Warriors
Colonial Navy/Earth Empire Navy - Colony Wars series
CoDominium Space Navy and Marines - also known as the Fleet Falkenburg's Legion Series
- CoDominium Armed Services - Predecessor to the Space Navy and Marines
- Fleet Marines - Technical Eilte
- Garrison Marines - Riot suppression
- Line Marines
  - 501st Provisional Battalion
  - 42nd CoDominium Line Marines
- Navy
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
- Alpha Squadron
- Delta Squadron
- Nova Squadron
- Omega Squadron
Confederate States Armed Forces - C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
- Confederate States Air Force (CSAF)
- Confederate States Marine Corp (CSMC) (used in fictional context)
  - 129th Fighting Bucks
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
Crand Planetary Defence Force (CPDF)- Belligerent Comics
Scarlet Crusade - Warcraft
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
- Also used in Space Battleship Yamato and the derivative Star Blazers.
Earth Federal Forces - Universal Century Gundam
- Earth Federation Air Force
- Earth Federation Army
  - Africa
  - Australia
    - White Dingo - Mobile Suit Gundam 0079: Rise From The Ashes novel and video game
  - East Asia
  - Eastern Europe
  - Europe
    - 03th Mobile Suit Division - Gundam: Lost War Chronicles
  - North America
    - GM Cannon Division
  - Pacific
  - South America
  - Southeast Asia
    - Kojima Battalion - Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
      - 04th Mobile Suit Team
      - 08th Mobile Suit Team - Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
- Earth Federation Navy
- Earth Federation Space Forces (EFSF)
  - Eagle Force - Federation reinforcements to Task Force Alpha, Gundam Sentinel
  - Eno Fleet - Gundam Sentinel
  - The Immortal 4th - Gundam 0083
  - Tianem Fleet - Mobile Suit Gundam
  - Task Force Alpha - emergency-mobilized unit following the fall of Gryps, Gundam Sentinel
EarthForce - Babylon 5
- EarthForce Marine Corps - Also known as GROPOS (Ground Pounders)
Earth Militia - Turn-A Gundam
Earth Starfleet - predcessor to the UFP Starfleet, Star Trek: Enterprise
Estharian Military - Final Fantasy VIII
Exofleet - Exosquad
- Able Squad
- Jumptroops
Fairy Air Force - Yukikaze
The Fighting Dukaki - Futurama
First Easter Mirage Knights - Five Star Stories
- First Easter Mirage Corps
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
Grand Army of the Republic - Clone Trooper Army, Star Wars
- Various Clone Troopers (Pilots, SCUBA, etc.)
- Senate Guard
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 Intelligence
- Imperial Navy
- Imperial Starfighter Corps
- Imperial Security Bureau
- Imperial Stormtrooper Corps
- COMPNOR
The Galactic Terran Alliance - GTA: FreeSpace
The Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance - GTVA: FreeSpace
The Guardian Unit of Nations (commonly known as "G.U.N.") - Sonic the Hedgehog series
The Helghast Armed Forces - Killzone
- Third Helghast Army
The High Guard - military forces of the Systems Commonwealth, Andromeda
- Argosy - Space branch
- Lancers - Marines
Holy Iron Chain Knights - Berserk
The Honoured Matres - Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse Dune
The Horde - Orc army, Warcraft series
- Warsong Outriders
- Forsaken Defilers
- Frostwolf Orcs
The Host of the West The Lord of the Rings series
Galactic Patrol - Lensman series
- Lensmen
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
- Imperial Marines
- Imperial Space Navy Reserve
Forces of the Imperium - Warhammer 40,000
- Adeptus Mechanicus
  - Praetorian Servitors
  - Skitarii
  - Titan Legions
- Adeptus Arbites
- Adeptus Custodes
- Imperial Guard
See History of the Imperial Guard (Warhammer 40,000) for a list of major regiments.
- Imperial Inquistion
  - Alien Hunters (Ordo Xenos)
    - Deathwatch.
  - Daemonhunters (Ordo Malleus)
    - Grey Knights
  - Witch Hunters (Ordo Hereticus)
    - Sisters of Battle
- Imperial Navy
- Space Marines (Adeptus Astartes), including
- Various Planetary Defense Forces
International Fleet - Ender's Game
Interplanetary Strategic Alliance (ISA) forces - Killzone
- ISA Regulars
- Rapid Reaction Force (RRF)
- Shadow Marshalls
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)
  - 27th Division
- 5121st Platoon - Gunparade March
- 801 TTS (Tactical Training Squadron) - 801 T.T.S. Airbats
- Assault Machine Troop - Full Metal Panic
  - Narashino Airborne Machine Troop
  - Nerima Airborne Machine Troop
- Helldivers - Patlabor series
- Japanese Self-Defense Army Surveillance Squad (JSDA Watch) - Stand Alone Complex (PSP)
- Japanese 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
Kibian Defense Forces - Starship Operators
Kzinti fleets - Known Space series
Klingon Defense Force - Star Trek
League of Free Worlds - Colony Wars series
Laburec (Abh Space Navy) - Crest of the Stars
The Last Alliance of Men and Elves - The Lord of the Rings
Lyran Alliance Armed Forces - Battletech
Forces of Mordor - Sauron's armies, The Lord of the Rings
Naboo Security Forces - Star Wars: The Phantom Menance
- Royal Palace Guard
- Security Guard
- Space Fighter Corps
  - Bravo Squadron
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
- 3rd Carrier Group
- 3rd Fleet
- 5th Defense Group
- 5th Special Division
  - Sector 2
- 6th Fleet
- 6th Orbital Fleet
- 7th Mobile Fleet
- 7th Orbital Fleet
- 8th Air Defense Group
- 8th Fleet
- 11th Air Defense Corps
- 13th Autonomous Corps
- 14th Tank Corps
- 15th Carrier Group
- 22nd Transport Unit
- 48th Space Division
- 51st Battle Group
- 81st Independent Mobile Battalion
- 211th Space Division
- Peacemaker Force
  - Peacemaker Force Two
- Phantom Pain
- Special Operatives X - Under Eurasian Federation only
Orban Defense Forces (Kingdom of Orb) - Gundam Seed
- 2nd Defense Fleet
- 6th Technical Company
- 8th Armored Battalion
- 21st Airborne Unit
Orange Star Army - Advance Wars
Organization of Zodiac (OZ) - Gundam Wing
- Prize - Mobile Suit Gundam: The Last Outpost
  - Stardust Knights - Mobile Suit Gundam: The Last Outpost
Parliamentary Vasudan Navy - PVN: FreeSpace
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
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
Shutoral National Defense Army - Maschinen Krieger ZbV 3000
- Shutoral Army High-Speed Transport Corps
- 300th Armored Mobile Infantry Regiment "Rengemark"
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 Armed Forces - Starship Troopers
- Navy
- Army
  - Mobile Infantry
- Marine Corps
- K-9 Corps
Trade Federation Droid Army - Star Wars: The Phantom Menance
United Citizen Federation - Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers
- Mobile Infantry (Army)
- Fleet (Navy)
- Starside R & D
United Droid Army - Belligerent Comics
United Earth Directorate Expeditionary Fleet - StarCraft
- Atlas Wing - Ground based forces
- Cronus Wing - Space forces
United Earth Forces - Martian Successor Nadesico
United Earth Sphere Alliance Forces - Gundam Wing
United Federation Military - Eureka Seven
- Ageha Squad
- SOF (Special Operations Force)
United Nations - Fictional or speculative depictions of United Nations peacekeeping and defense forces
- Ghost, MOP (Multiple Operations Platform) - Ghost Squad
- United Nations Anti-Terrorism Coalition (Commonly referred to as UNATCO) - Deus Ex
- United Nations Expeditionary 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: Combat Evolved and Halo 2
  - UNSCDF Marine Corps
    - Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (ODST) "Helljumpers"
  - Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
    - SPARTANS
- 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
  - Young Women's Auxiliary
- 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
- COSMOS (Children of Soldier Machine Organic System) - Spriggan
- United States Army Chemical and Biological Defense Command CBDC - Syphon Filter series
- 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
- Machiner's Platoon - Spriggan (OVA)
- Team Red Light, Force Recon, United States Marine Corps - Extermination
- 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
- Zanzibar Land Army
  - Black Color Ninjas
  - Dogs of War
Zeon Military Force (ZMF) - Universal Century Gundam
- Zeon Space Attack Force
  - Conscon fleet - Mobile Suit Gundam
  - Primus fleet
- Zeon Mobile Assault Force
  - Chimera Corps (a flying circus formed of Zeon's elite mobile suit aces, sans Char Aznable)
  - Granada Space Defense Unit
  - Solomon Special Attack Force
- Zeon Earth Attack Force
  - Army
    - Afrika Korps
    - Caracal Corps (Zeon 5th Land Mobile Infantry Division 1st Battalion A MS Team)
    - Foreign Legion
    - 13th Blue Bone Squadron
  - Navy
    - Green Siren Corps
    - Mad Angler Corps
    - Manta Ray Corps
    - Naga III (Red Orca) Corps
    - Red Dolphin Corps
    - Sea Serpent Corps
  - Air Force

[edit] Guerrilla, Revolutionary, and Terrorist Organizations

A21 - Full Metal Panic
A World with No Boundaries - Ace Combat Zero
Amalgam - Full Metal Panic
Army of Chiron - Blue Submarine No. 6
Audobon Ballroom - Honor Harrington
African Liberation Front - Double Zeta Gundam
Akatsuki - Naruto
Angel Wing - Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG
Anti-Earth Union Group (AEUG) - Zeta Gundam
AVALANCHE - Final Fantasy VII
Backdraft Organisation- Zoids: New Century Zero
Bajor Resistance - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Shakaar Resistance Cell
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 - Full Metal Alchemist
Blue Cosmos - Gundam Seed
Brotherhood - Rouge
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
Comic Book Liberation Army- Teenagers From Mars (Comic Book Series)
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
- Daemons
- The Lost and the Damned
- Beasts of Chaos
- Hordes of Chaos
COBRA - G.I. Joe
Confederacy of Independent Systems Droid Army - Star Wars
Darah Dan Doa (Blood and Prayer) - Indonesian terrorist group, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
Dark Brotherhood - Morrowind
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
Free Jaffa - Jaffa Resistance against the Goa'uld, Stargate SG-1
Free Wunderland Navy - Man-Kzin Wars, Known Space
The Fremen - Dune
- Fedaykin (Fremen Death Commandos)
Forest Owls - Final Fantasy VIII
Freedom Party - Falkenburg's Legions series
Gekkostate - Eureka Seven
Galactor - Gatchaman
- Blackbirds
- Devil Stars
Geldam - Kamen Rider
Gel-Shocker - Kamen Rider
Gorgom - Kamen Rider Black
- Gorgom Destruction Team
Gilda Liberation Alliance - Najica Blitz Tactics
Gindran Liberation Front (GLF) - Metal Gear: Ghost Babel
Global Liberation Army (GLA) - Command & Conquer: Generals
Government of Darkness - 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
Homeguard - Xenopohbic Human Terrorist Organization, Babylon 5
Homeworlds Resistance - Exosquad
- Earth Resistance Force
  - Australian Resistance Cell
  - North American Resistance Cell
- Venusian Resistance Force
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
Japan Liberation Front - Code Geass
Jenoma People's Army - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Karaba - Zeta Gundam
Karma - Ring of Red
Knights of Genetic Purity - Originally Gamma World, also used in Andromeda
League of Free Worlds - Colony Wars
Legion of Doom - DC Comics
Mafat Revolutionary Group - The Mafat Conspiracy: Golgo 13 II
Mafty - Gundam: Hathaway's Flash
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
- 1st Foreign Legion Corps
  - 4th Air Support Platoon
- 34th A.F.S. (Armored Fighting Suit) Platoon
- 44th A.F.S. Battalion
- 48th New South Wales
- 90th All Mercenary Company
Millennium - Hellsing
Mission Hills Protective Association - Falkenburg's Legions series
Mutant Liberation Front - X-Force
Neo Kleit - Surveillance Kanshisha
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]]
Padania Republic Faction- Gunslinger Girl
Patriot army - New Washington forces, Falkenburg's Legions series
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 Revolutionary Strike Force - The Enforcer
Raiders - Sky Commanders
Red Faction - Red Faction
Red May - Angel Cop
Red Ribbon Army - Dragon Ball
Refugee Liberation Organization - Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG
The Resistance - V
Re'tu Rebels - Stargate SG-1
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 - Covenant rebellion, Halo 2
Space Revolutionary Army - Gundam X
Space Forces of the Republic of Union - (The Mote in God's Eye)
- Union Guard
The Squad - Red Faction 2
Suliban Cabal - Star Trek: Enterprise
Terra Prime - Star Trek: Enterprise
Terran Rebellion - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Three Ships Alliance - Clyne Faction, Gundam Seed
Thor's Hammer - Silent Storm: Sentinels
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
Rebel Alliance - Star Wars
The Red Army - Discworld
The River Pack - Falkenburg's Legions series
The Underground - Jak II
The People's Voice- Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
Vodarek - Eureka Seven
Wild Seven - Battle Royale II: Requiem
Wolverines - Red Dawn
White Fang - Gundam Wing
Zekistan Liberation Front - Full Spectrum Warrior

[edit] Mercenary Organizations and Private Military Companies

21st Century Security Corporation - Dai-Guard
The A-Team - The A-Team
Angel Links - Outlaw Star
Armed Guardian Services (ARGUS), Incorporated - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Association of International Mercenaries (AIM) - Jagged Alliance computer game series
Band of Hawks - Berserk
- Raiders
Barton's Bulldogs - Falkenburg's Legions series
Carrera's Wedge - Broken Angels
Clawhammer Defense Industries - SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 2
The Cleaners - Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
Dendarii Free Mercenaries - Vorkosigan Saga
Displace International - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Dorsai - Childe Cycle
Dreadnoks - G.I. Joe
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
High-risk United Nations Task-force (H.U.N.T.) - Rise of the Triad
Ikari Warriors - King of Fighters series
Institute for Geotactical Intelligence (IGI) - Project IGI series
The Kell Hounds - Battletech
Knight Sabers - Bubblegum Crisis
Kroot - Warhammer 40,000
MacKenzie Military Assistance Corporation - Vatta's War
MITHRIL - Full Metal Panic
Nergal Heavy Industries - Martian Successor Nadesico
National Defence Family - Patlabor 2
Oseran Mercenaries - Vorkosigan Saga
Outer Heaven - Metal Gear
Ravens - Armored Core 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
Spartan Guards Regiments - Battletech
Tagon's Toughs -Schlock Mercenary
Star Fox - Star Fox series
Star Wolf - Star Fox series
Tagon's Toughs - Schlock Mercenary
Turanic Raiders - Homeworld
Wolf's Dragoons - Battletech
Wulong mercenaries - Front Mission 3
Ultra-Box - Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Vulture - Gundam X
X-Corporation - X-Men
X Hunters- Mega Man X2

[edit] Militias and Other Paramilitary Organizations

ARCAM Corporation - Spriggan
- ARCAM Private Army
  - ARCAM Defense Unit
  - ARCAM Special Private Army
  - Spriggans
ANBU Black Ops - Naruto
- Root
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
- Kerebos Panzer Corps
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
- CRI Intelligence
Crossbone Vanguard - Meitzer Ronah's, and later Berah Ronah's, private army, Gundam F-91
- Black Vanguard
The Digidestined - Digimon
Groupe Fleur de Paris - Sakura Wars
Freedom Party Guards - American Empire, Settling Accounts
Hellsing Organization - Hellsing
- Royal Protestant Knights
International Science Organization (ISO) - Gatchaman
- Red Impulse Squadron
- Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman)
League Militarie - V Gundam
- Shrikes
Les Soldats (The Soldiers) - Noir
Londo Bell - Gundam:Char's Counterattack
March 33 - Conflict: Global Storm
Maverick Hunters - Mega Man X
Mikado Corporation - The Bouncer
- Mikado Special Forces (MSF)
- Mikado Special Police Detachment (MSPD)
Military Police - Paramilitary forces of Paradigm City, Big O
Mishima Enterprises - Tekken series
- Tekken Force
MJ-12 - Spriggan
- Machiner's Platoon
New York Fighting Troupe - Sakura Wars
New Texas Godfearing Militia - Rules of Engagement by Elizabeth Moon
NESTS - King of Fighters series
Nightwatch - Babylon 5
Pacific Medical - Najica Blitz Tactics
- Pacific Medical Security Forces
Preventers - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Repliforce - Mega Man X
- Repli-Air-Force
- Repli-Sea-Force
Red Shield - Blood+
ROUGE - Rouge
Sailor Soldiers - also known as Sailor Scouts, Sailor Moon
Shinba Industrials - Najica Blitz Tactics
- Shinba Industrials Security Forces
Shinra - Namco x Capcom
Shuffle Alliance - G-Gundam
Social Welfare Agency - Gunslinger Girl
Stalwarts - American Empire, Settling Accounts
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
Umbrella Corporation - Resident Evil
- Umbrella Trashsweepers - Wetworks and illegal operations division
- Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service - Anti-terrorism and hostage rescue division
- Umbrella Security Service - Intelligence gathering and espionage division
UN Special Agency NERV - Neon Genesis Evangelion
World Regenesis Organization - Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
X-Force - X-Force
Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty (ZAFT) - Gundam Seed
- Boaz Defense Forces
- Jachin Due Defense Forces
- Aizawa Team
- Allison Team
- Bernhardt Team
- Bozman Team
- Cellini Team
- Cortes Team
- Harald Team
- Joule Team
- Krueger Team
- Le Creuset Team
- Moore Team
- Morassim Team
- Nehr Team
- Serizawa Team
- Yun Law Team
Various Civilian and Espionage Agencies that have paramilitary aspects

[edit] Special Forces

13th Autonomous Fleet - Earth Federation Newtype Corps, Mobile Suit Gundam
303rd Logistical Studies Unit - The Unit
Ageha Squadron - Anti-Coralian task force, Eureka Seven
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 Lance - Wing Commander
Black Tri-Stars - Group of Ace Zeon pilots, Mobile Suit Gundam
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
FAITH - Gundam SEED Destiny
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
Loyal Army - Ring of Red
Military Assault Command Operations (MACO) - Star Trek: Enterprise
Midnight Fenrir Corps - Zeon special forces team, Mobile Suit Gundam 0079: Zeonic Front
Next-Generation Special Forces - Genome Army, Metal Gear Solid
October Guard - G.I. Joe
Officio Assasinorum - Warhammer 40,000
Pax Swiss Guard - Hyperion Cantos
Peregrine Falcons - Metal Slug series
Rainbow - Rainbow Six
Rapid Response Tactical Squad (RRTS) - Doom
Red Card - First President of Japan
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 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
The Specials - United Earth Sphere Alliance elite mobile suit corps, Gundam Wing
The Shattered Hand - World of Warcraft
Special Forces - Gundam SEED
Special Tactical Force (STF) - Crisis Zone
Stargate Command - Stargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis
- SG-1 Exploration team
- Other SG teams from SG-2 through SG-21
- 1st SFW
- Atlantis Expedition Security and Military personnel are nominally under SGC command.
STRIKER - Tom Clancy's Op-Center
Super Hero Operational Command and Control (SHOCC) - Marshal Law
- Screaming Eagles
Task Force Talon - Act of War
Titans - Zeta Gundam
- Titans Mobile Suit Instructor Corps, later taking the name New Decides - Gundam Sentinel
- Titans Test Team (TTT) - Advance of Zeta
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
Zero Armed Constables - Dennou Keisatsu Cybercop
Zone Riders - Spiral Zone

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

Aspect Shrine - Eldar Warrior cults, Warhammer 40,000
Broods - Zerg formations, StarCraft
Death Cults- Warhammer 40,000
Dark Eldar Forces - Warhammer 40,000
- Scourges
- Talos
- Wyches
Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery - Buke (Warrior) caste of the Draconis Combine, Battletech
Tau Castes, Warhammer 40,000
- Air Caste(Kor) - Tau Navy
- Fire Caste (Shas) - Tau military caste
- Gue'Vesa'La - Human auxiliaries
Harlequins - Eldar warrior sub-group, Warhammer 40,000
Fleet of Particular Justice - Covenant fleet, Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2
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 9
Necrons - Warhammer 40,000
- Necron Fleets
Orc Tribes - Warhammer 40,000
Protectors - Final Pak stage of development. Protects its bloodline, defending against possible threats, Known Space
Rangers - Also known as Anla'Shok, Babylon 5
- White Star Fleet
Templar - Protoss military and explorer caste, StarCraft
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