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'''''Digital imprimatur''''' is a term widely associated with [[John Walker (programmer)|John Walker]], due to his article of the same name. Traditionally in the [[Roman Catholic Church]], an [[imprimatur]] is a censor's official approval of publication. Thus a digital imprimatur is needed under a system of [[internet censorship]].
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).
John Walker argues in his article ''The Digital Imprimatur: How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle'', that there is increasingly a crackdown on the ability for internet users to voice their ideas, as well as an upcoming official state of internet censorship on the horizon. Walker claims that the most likely candidate to usher in the digital imprimatur is [[digital rights management]], or DRM.
==[[Armed Force]]s==
Similar scenarios have been predicted by others, including [[Richard Stallman]], in his article and essay ''The Right to Read''.
*AFUCT - Armed Forces Union of Civilian Teachers - in the naval satire ''[[One of the Guys]]'' by [[Robert Clark Young]]
*Alliance of Democratic Nations - ([[Command and Conquer: Red Alert]])
*The Alliance - Alliance of Humans, Elves,and Dwarfs ([[Warcraft]] series)
*[[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]] [[novel]]s)
**35th Llamadosian Foot
**Duke of Eorle's First Heavy Infantry (nicknamed the Pheasant Pluckers)
**Duke of [[Quirm]]'s Middleweight Infantry
**[[Minor Discworld characters#The Selachii family|Lord Selachii]]'s Light Infantry
**[[Minor Discworld characters#The Venturi family|Lord Venturi]]'s Heavy Infantry
**[[Minor Discworld characters#The Venturi family|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) - ([[Battletech]])
*[[Army of the Southern Cross]] - (''[[Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross]]'', ''[[Robotech]]'')
**Alpha Tactical Armored Corps (ATAC) - (''[[Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross]]'', ''[[Robotech]]'')
*Army of light - ([[Babylon 5]])
*Asgard Fleet - ([[Stargate SG-1]])
*Bajor Milita - ([[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]])
*Blue Fleet - ([[Blue Submarine No. 6]])
*[[Borogravia]]n Army (''[[Monstrous Regiment (novel)|Monstrous Regiment]]'', [[Discworld]])
** 10th Borogravian Light Foot Infantry (nicknamed the Ins-and-Outs and the Cheesemongers)
*[[British Army]] - Fictional or speculative depictions of British military organizations
**[[King's Own Fusiliers]] - (''[[Soldier Soldier]]'')
**[[Royal Wessex Rangers]] - ([[Spearhead (TV series)|''Spearhead'']])
*Capellan Confederation Armed Forces (CCAF) - ([[Battletech]])
*Cardassian Orders - ([[Cardassia]]n military divisions, [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]])
*Collective Enforcement Agency - (Murphy's Gambit by Syne Mitchell)
*Colonial Fleet - ([[Battlestar Galactica (2003)]])
*Colonial Navy - ([[Battlestar Galactica (1978)|Original Battlestar Galactica]])
**Colonial Warriors
*Colonial Navy - (Earth Emprie Navy, Colony Wars)
*CoDominium Space Navy and Marines - also known as the Fleet ([[CoDominium|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 (Half-Life 2)#Humanoid Combine|Combine Overwatch Humanoid Task Forces]] - ([[Transhuman]] arm of the [[Combine (Half-Life 2)|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
*Confederation Navy (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 (self-aware tank)|BOLO]] series)
*Earth Commonwealth Navy - (''[[I-War (Independence War)|I-War]]'', aka ''Independnece War'')
*[[Earth Federation|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
***North America
****GM Cannon Division
***Pacific
***South America
***Southeast Asia
****Kojima Battalion (''[[Gundam - The 08th MS Team|Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team ]]'')
*****08th Mobile Suit Team (''[[Gundam - The 08th MS 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'')
*Earth Force -([[Babylon 5]])
**Marines - Also known as GROPOS (Ground Pounders)
*Earth Militia - ([[Turn-A Gundam]])
*Earth Starfleet - (predcessor to the UFP Starfleet, Star Trek: Enterprise)
*Exofleet - ([[Exosquad]])
*Fairy Air Force - ([[Yukikaze]])
*The Fighting Dukaki - ''[[Futurama (animated series)]]''
*The [[Fish Speakers]] - (''[[God Emperor of Dune]]'' and succeeding novels)
*Federal Marshals - (Military of The Alliance,[[Firefly (television series)| Firefly]])
*Foundation Fleet - (The Foundation Trilogy)
*Free Worlds League Military - ([[Battletech]])
*[[Global Defense Initative]] (GDI) - (''[[Command and Conquer|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 Navy|Grayson Space Navy]] (GSN) - ([[Honor Harrington]] series of novels)
*Gungan Grand Army - (''[[Star Wars]]'')
*[[Galactic Empire (Star Wars)|Galactic Empire Armed Forces]] - (''[[Star Wars]]'')
**[[Emperor's Royal Guard]]
**[[Imperial Army (Star Wars)|Imperial Army]]
** [[Imperial Intelligence]]
**[[Imperial Navy]]
**[[TIE Fighter|Imperial Starfighter Corps]]
** [[Imperial Security Bureau]]
**[[Imperial Stormtrooper|Imperial Stormtrooper Corps]]
*The Galactic Terran Allience (GTA: ''[[Descent:_Freespace|Freespace]]'')
*The Galactic Terran-Vasudan Allience (GTVA: ''[[Descent:_Freespace|Freespace]]'')
*The [[Helghast]] Armed Forces - (''[[Killzone]]'')
**Third Helghast Army
*The High Guard - (Military Forces of the Systems Commonwealth, [[Andromeda (television)|Andromeda]])
**Agrosy - Space branch
**Lancers - Planetary Forces
*Holy Iron Chain Knights - (''[[Berserk]]'')
*The [[Honoured Matres]] - (''[[Heretics of Dune]]'' and ''[[Chapterhouse Dune]]'')
*The Horde - (Orc army, [[Warcraft]] series)
*Galactic Patrol ([[Lensman]] series)
**Lensmen
*Imperial Andermani Navy (Honor Harrington series)
*Imperial Navy ([[The Foundation Series]])
*Imperial Space Navy ([[The Mote In God's Eye]])
**Imperial Marines
*Forces of the Imperium - ([[Warhammer 40,000]])
**[[Imperial Guard (Warhammer 40,000 army)|Imperial Guard]]
*** Cadian Shock Troopers
*** Catachan Jungle Fighters
*** Armageddon Steel Legion
**[[Warhammer 40,000|Imperial Inquistion]]
***[[Alien Hunters (Warhammer 40,000)|Alien Hunters]] (Ordo Xenos)
***[[Daemonhunters]] (Ordo Malleus)
****[[Grey Knights]]
***[[Witch Hunters]] (Ordo Hereticus)
****[[Sisters of Battle (Warhammer 40,000)|Sisters of Battle]]
**Imperial Navy
**Space Marines ([[Adeptus Astartes]])
***[[Ultramarines]]
***[[Blood Angels]]
***[[Dark Angels (Warhammer 40,000)|Dark Angels]]
***[[Space Wolves]]
***[[Salamanders (Warhammer 40,000)|Salamanders]]
*Interplanetary Strategic Alliance (ISA) forces ([[Killzone]])
**ISA Regulars
**Rapid Reaction Force (RRF)
**Shadow Marshalls
*Isengard Uruk-hai Army - (''[[The Two Towers]]'')
*Japanese Strategic Self-Defense Forces (JSSDF) - (''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'')
*Jet Force - ([[Jet Force Gemini]])
*Kzinti fleets - ([[Known Space]])
*[[Klingon]] Defense Force - (''[[Star Trek]]'')
*Laburec - Abh Space Navy ([[Crest of the Stars]])
*The Last Alliance of Men and Elves - (Tolkien)
*Lyran Alliance Armed Forces - ([[Battletech]])
*Forces of Mordor - ([[Sauron]]'s armies, [[The Lord of the Rings]])
*Naboo Security Forces - ([[Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace |Star Wars: The Phantom Menance]])
**Royal Palace Guard
**Security Guard
**Space Fighter Corps
***Bravo Squadron
*Neo-Zeon - (led by Haman Kahn, ''[[Double Zeta Gundam]]'')
*[[OMNI Enforcer]] (Oppose Militancy and Neutralize Invasion) - (''[[Gundam Seed]]'')
**3rd Fleet
**8th Fleet
**13th Autonomous Corps
**Peacemaker Force
*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: ''[[Descent:_Freespace|Freespace]]'')
*[[People's Navy (Honorverse)|People's Navy]] (PN), previously/later Republican Navy - ([[Honor Harrington]] series of novels)
*Peacekeepers ([[Farscape]])
*Rasalhague KungsArme - Royal Rasalhague Army ([[Battletech]])
*Regular Space Service - (The Serrano Legacy series by Elizabeth Moon)
*Republic of the Sphere Armed Forces (RAF) - ([[Battletech]])
*[[Robotech Defense 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 (novel)|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]]'')
*Star Command - (''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'')
*[[Starfleet]] - (''[[Star Trek]]'')
*Star League Defense Force - ([[Battletech]])
*State Military - (''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'')
**State Alchemists (''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'')
*Taiidan High Guard fleet - ([[Homeworld]])
*Terran Confederation Navy ([[Wing Commander]] series)
*[[Terran Federation]] Armed Forces (''[[Starship Troopers]]'')
**Navy
**Army
***[[Mobile Infantry]]
**Marine Corps
**[[canidae|K-9]] Corps
*Trade Federation Droid Army - ([[Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace|Star Wars: The Phantom Menance]])
*[[United Citizen Federation]] - ([[Starship Troopers (movie)|Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers]])
**Mobile Infantry (Army)
**[[Fleet (Starship Troopers)|Fleet]] (Navy)
** Starside [[Research and Development|R & D]]
*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 Nations]] - Fictional or speculative depictions of United Nations [[peacekeeping]] and defense forces
**United Nations Expeditionary Force (UNEF) - (''[[The Forever War]]'')
**[[United Nations Intelligence Taskforce]] - ([[Doctor Who]])
**[[United Nations Space Command]] (UNSC) - (''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' and ''[[Halo 2]]'')
***UNSC Marines
****Orbital Drop Shock Troopers ([[ODST]]) "Helljumpers"
***Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
****Spartans
**United Nations Space Force (UNSF) - ([[Zone of 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 organziations
**United States Colonial Marines ([[USCM]]) - (''[[Aliens (movie)|Aliens]]'')
**United States Marine Corps Air-Space Cavalry - ([[Space: Above and Beyond]])
*Warrior Monks - ([[Final Fantasy X]])
*Zanzibar Land Army (''[[Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake]]'')
**Black Color Ninjas
*[[Principality of Zeon|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)
****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
Other people predict the establishment of a [[dynamic equilibrium]] between repressive official and commercial and more free but in some cases illegal technologies, resulting in the emergence of [[darknet]]s and [[anonymous P2P]] systems, together with alternative networking systems (including but not limited to [[sneakernet]]s and both fixed and ad-hoc [[wireless mesh network]]s), and vivid [[underground culture]] and [[black market]] centered on them, in accordance with the [[iron law of prohibition]].
==[[Guerrilla]], [[Revolutionary]], and [[Terrorist]] Organizations==
*African Liberation Front - (''[[Double Zeta Gundam]]'')
*Akatsuki - ''[[Naruto]]''
*[[Anti Earth Union Group|Anti-Earth Union Group (AEUG)]] - (''[[Zeta Gundam]]'')
*AVALANCHE - ([[Final Fantasy VII]])
*Bajor Resistance - (''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'')
**Shakaar Resistance Cell
*Blake Guard - (Word of Blake milita, [[Battletech]])
*Blue Cosmos - ([[Gundam Seed]])
*[[Brotherhood of Evil Mutants]] - [[Marvel Comics]]
*[[Brotherhood of Nod]] - (''[[Command and Conquer|Command & Conquer]]'')
*Browncoats - (Independent Faction soldiers, ''[[Firefly (television series)| Firefly]]'')
*Cardassian Liberation Front - (Cardassian Rebellion, ''Star Trek: DS9'')
*Forces of Chaos - ([[Warhammer]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]])
**Chaos Space Marines
**Daemons
**The Lost and the Damned
**Beasts of Chaos (Warhammer Fantasy)
**Hordes of Chaos (Warhammer Fantasy)
*[[COBRA Organization|COBRA]] - (''[[G.I. Joe]]'')
*Confederacy of Independent Systems Droid Army - (''[[Star Wars]]'')
*Darah Dan Doa (Blood and Prayer) - ([[Indonesia|Indonesian]] terrorist group, ''[[Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow]]'')
*Devil Army (also known as the Dark Army, [[G Gundam]])
*[[Aiguille Delaz|Delaz Fleet]] - (''[[Gundam 0083]]'')
*Desert Dawn - (Gundam SEED)
*Eridanus Human Rebels - (''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' and ''[[Halo: First Strike]]'')
*Free Jaffa - ([[Jaffa Resistance]] aginst the [[Goa'uld]], ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'')
*Free Wunderland Navy - (Man-Kzin Wars, [[Known Space]])
*The [[Fremen]] - (''[[Dune (novel)|Dune]]'')
**Fedaykin (Fremen Death Commandos)
*Freedom Party - (Falkenburg's Legions series)
*Gindran Liberation Front (GLF) - ([[Metal Gear: Ghost Babel]])
*Global Liberation Army (GLA) - (''[[Command and Conquer#Command and Conquer: Generals|Command & Conquer: Generals]]'')
*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)
*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]]'')
*[[HYDRA (comics)|HYDRA]] - [[Marvel Comics]]
*Indies - (''[[I-War (Independence War)|I-War]]'', aka ''Independence War'')
*Jenoma People's Army - (''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'')
*Karaba - (''[[Zeta Gundam]]'')
*Knights of Genetic Purity - (''[[Andromeda (TV series)|Andromeda]]'')
*League of Free Worlds - (Colony Wars)
*[[Legion of Doom]] - [[DC Comics]]
*Maganac Corps - (''[[Gundam Wing]]'')
*Mariemeia Army - (''[[Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz]]'')
*[[Maquis (Star Trek)|Maquis]] - (''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'')
*[[Maverick|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
*Mission Hills Protective Association - ([[CoDominium |Falkenburg's Legions series]])
*Mutant Liberation Front - (''[[X-Force]]'')
*Neo-Terran Front (NTF) - (led by Admiral Aken Bosch, ''[[Descent:_Freespace|Freespace 2]]'')
*Neo-Zeon - (led by Char Aznable, [[Gundam]]: ''[[Char's Counterattack]]'')
*Northwest Secessionist Forces (NSF) - (full name rarely used, ''[[Deus Ex]]'')
*Patriot army - (New Washington forces, Falkenburg's Legions series)
*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 (television)|War of the Worlds]]'' TV series
*The Resistance - (''[[V (TV series)|V]]'')
*Re'tu Rebels - (''[[Stargate SG-1]]'')
*Sabotage Corps - (Predecessor to [[Bureau of Sabotage]], [[The Dosadi Experiment]])
*[[Shadaloo]] - ''[[Street Fighter Alpha]]'' and ''[[Street Fighter II]]'' games
*Sons of Earth - (Rebel Colonists of Plateau, [[Known Space]])
*Sons of Korhal - (Starcraft)
*The Sect - ([[Mamoru Oshii]]'s ''[[Kerebos]]'' films and manga and ''[[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]])
*Suliban Cabal - (''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'')
*Terra Prime - (''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'')
*Terran Rebellion - (''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'')
*Three Ships Alliance - (Clyne Faction, [[Gundam Seed]])
*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 - ([[CoDominium |Falkenburg's Legions series]])
*Wolverines - ([[Red Dawn]])
*White Fang - (''[[Gundam Wing]]'')
*Zekistan Liberation Front - (''[[Full Spectrum Warrior]]'')
==See also==
== [[Mercenary|Mercenary Organizations]] and [[private military contractor|Private Military Companies]] ==
*21st Century Security Corporation - (Dai Guard)
*The A-Team - ([[The A-Team]])
*Angel Links - ([[Outlaw Star]])
*Armed Guardian Services (ARGUS), Incorporated - (''[[Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow]]'')
*Association of International Mercenaries (AIM) - (''[[Jagged Alliance]]'' [[computer game]] series)
*Band of Hawks - (''[[Berserk]]'')
**Raiders
*Barton's Bulldogs - ([[CoDominium |Falkenburg's Legions series]])
*Carrera's Wedge - ([[Broken Angels]])
*The Cleaners - ([[Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne]])
*Dendarii Free Mercenaries - ([[Vorkosigan Saga]])
*Displace International - (''[[Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow]]'')
*Dreadnoks - (''[[G.I. Joe]]'')
*Eridami Light Horse - ([[Battletech]])
*EXOps - ([[Mercenaries]])
*Falkenberg's Legion - (Falkenburg's Legions Series by [[Jerry Pournelle]])
*Flying [[Legion]] - (''[[Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow]]'')
*Gurlukovich mercenaries - (''[[Metal Gear Solid 2]]'')
*Hammer's Slammers - (''Hammer's Slammers'' series by [[David Drake]])
*The Kell Hounds - ([[Battletech]])
*Knight Sabers - ([[Bubblegum Crisis]])
*Nergal Heavy Industries - ([[Martian Successor Nadesico]])
*Oseran Mercenaries - ([[Vorkosigan Saga]])
*Outer Heaven - ([[Metal Gear]])
*SeeDs- (Final Fantasy VIII)
*Serpent Tail - (''[[Gundam SEED]] Astray'')
*Shadownet - (''[[Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow]]'')
*Starfox - ([[Starfox]] games)
*Star Wolf - ([[Starfox 64]])
*Turanic Raiders - ([[Homeworld]])
*Wolf's Dragoons - ([[Battletech]])
*Wulong mercenaries - (''[[Front Mission 3]]'')
*Vulture - (''[[Gundam X]]'')
*X-Corporation - (''[[X-Men]]'')
*[[Trusted computing]]
== [[Militia|Militias]] and Other [[Paramilitary]] Organizations ==
*[[Digital rights management]]
*ARCAM Defense Unit - ''[[Spriggan (manga)|Spriggan]]''
**[[Spriggans]]
*ANBU - ''[[Naruto]]''
*Bahram Militia Group - ([[Zone of Enders]])
*Capital Area Security Police Agency - ([[Mamoru Oshii]]'s ''[[Kerebos]]'' films and manga and ''[[Jin-roh]]'')
**Kerebos Panzer Corps
*Crossbone Vanguard - (Meitzer Ronah's, and later Berah Ronah's, private army, ''[[Gundam F-91]]'')
*The Digidestined - ([[Digimon]])
*[[Sakura_Wars#The_Paris_Hanagumi_.28Groupe_Fleur_de_Paris.29|Groupe Fleur de Paris]] ([[Sakura Wars]])
*Hellsing Organization - ([[Hellsing]])
**Royal Protestant Knights
*Iscariot Organization - ([[Hellsing]])
**Section XIII
*The [[Jedi]] Order -([[Star Wars]])
*League Militarie - (''[[V Gundam]]'')
**Shrikes
*[[Londo Bell]] - ([[Gundam]]:''[[Char's Counterattack]]'')
*[[Maverick Hunters]] - ([[Mega Man X]])
*Military Police - (Paramilitary forces of Paradigm City, [[Big O]])
*MJ-12 - ''[[Spriggan (manga)|Spriggan]]''
**Machiner's Platoon
*[[Sakura_Wars#The_New_York_Fighting_Troupe_.28New_York_Kagekidan.29|New York Fighting Troupe]] ([[Sakura Wars]])
*New Texas Godfearing Militia - (Rules of Engagement by [[Elizabeth Moon]])
*NERV - ([[Neon Genesis Evangelion]])
*NESTS - ([[King of Fighters]] series)
*Nightwatch - ([[Babylon 5]])
*Preventers - ([[Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz]])
*[[Repliforce]] - ([[Mega Man X]])
**Repli-Air-Force
**Repli-Sea-Force
*Sailor Soliders - (also known as Sailor Scouts, [[Sailor Moon]])
*Shuffle Ailliance - ([[G-Gundam]])
*[[Sakura_Wars#The_Teito_Hanagumi|Teikoku Kagekidan]] ([[Sakura Wars]])
*TERRA (RahXephon)
*The [[Woodchuck Militia]] - [[Scrooge McDuck universe]]
*ULTRA-BOX (''[[Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake]]'')
*Umbrella Corporation ([[Resident Evil]])
**Cleaners
**Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasures Service
**Umbrella Special Forces Unit
*X-Force - (''[[X-Force]]'')
*[[ZAFT|Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty]] (ZAFT) - (''[[Gundam Seed]]'')
**Le Creuset Team
**Yun Law Team
*Various Civilian and Espionage Agencies that have paramilitary aspects
==External links==
== [[Special Forces]] ==
* [http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ The Digital Imprimatur: How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle]
*13th Autonomous Fleet ([[Earth Federation]] Newtype Corps, ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'')
* [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html The Right to Read] by [[Richard Stallman]].
*Anti-Kouma Squad (Tai-Kouma Butai 対降魔部隊) (''[[Sakura Wars]]'')
*[[ARC Trooper]]s - Advanced Recon Commandos (''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]'')
*Black Chamber - (''[[Metal Gear: Ghost Babel]]'')
*Black Lance - (Wing Commander)
*Black Tri-Stars - (Group of Ace Zeon pilots, ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'')
*Canaries - (''[[Red Dwarf (television)|Red Dwarf]]'')
*[[Cobra unit|Cobra Unit]] - (''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'')
*Cyclops Commandos - (Zeon special forces squad, ''[[Gundam 0080]]'')
*[[Dead Cell]] - (''[[Metal Gear Solid 2]]'')
*FAITH - (Gundam SEED Destiny)
*[[FOXHOUND]] - ([[Metal Gear]] series)
*[[Force Operation X]] (FOX) Unit - (''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'')
*G.I. Joe - ([[G.I. Joe]])
*Guardian Units of the Nation (G.U.N) - (''[[Sonic Adventure 2]]'')
*Japanese Special Self-Defense Forces (JSSDF) - (''[[Gasaraki]]'')
*[[MACO|Military Assault Command Operations]] (MACO) - (''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'')
*Midnight Fenrir Corps (Zeon special forces team, ''Mobile Suit Gundam 0079: Zeonic Front'')
*MITHRIL - (Full Metal Panic)
*October Guard - ([[G.I. Joe]])
*Rainbow - (''[[Rainbow Six]]'')
*Republic [[Clone commandos|Clone Commando]]s - (''[[Star Wars: Republic Commando]]'')
**Delta Squad - (''[[Star Wars: Republic Commando]]'')
*SHIELD - (''[[Marvel Comics]]'')
*SOLDIER - ([[Final Fantasy VII]])
*The Specials - (United Earth Sphere Alliance elite mobile suit corps, ''[[Gundam Wing]]'')
*[[Stargate Command]] - (''[[Stargate SG-1]]'')
**[[SG-1]] Exploration team
**Other [[SG teams]] from SG-2 through SG-21
**1st SFW
*Super Hero Operational Command and Control (SHOCC) - (''[[Marshal Law]]'')
**Screaming Eagles
*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]]'')
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==[[Warrior caste|Warrior Castes]] and Other [[Culture|Culturally]]-Based Fighting Forces==
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*Aspect Shrine - (Eldar Warrior cults, [[Warhammer 40,000]])
*Broods - (Zerg formations, [[Starcraft]])
*Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery - Buke (Warrior) caste of the Draconis Combine([[Battletech]])
*Fire Caste (Shas) - (Tau military caste, [[Warhammer 40,000]])
*Fleet of Particular Justice - ([[Covenant (Halo)|Covenant]] fleet, ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' and ''[[Halo 2]]'')
*The [[Jaffa (Stargate)|Jaffa]] - ([[Goa'uld]] military strength, ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'')
*Kull Warriors - ([[Goa'uld]] [[System Lord]] [[Anubis (Stargate)|Anubis]]' Shock Troops, ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'')
*The Jem'Hadar - (The Dominion's military branch, ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space 9]]'')
*Protectors - Final Pak Stage of Development. Protects it's bloodline, defending aginst possible threats. ([[Known Space]])
*[[Ranger (Babylon 5)|Ranger]]s - (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]])
*Zentradi - (Proxy soldiers for the Protoculture, [[The Super Dimension Fortress Macross]])
*Zentraedi - (Clone soldiers for the Robotech Masters, [[Robotech]])
==See also ==
*[[List of fictional institutions]]
*[[List of fictional military operations]]
*[[List of fictional military people]]
*[[Space Marine]]
*[[Fictional characters]]
*[[Archive of fictional things]]
[[Category:Lists of fictional things|Military organizations]]
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