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).
- 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 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) - (Battletech)
- Army of the Southern Cross - (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)
- Borogravian Army (Monstrous Regiment, Discworld)
- 10th Borogravian Light Foot Infantry (nicknamed the Ins-and-Outs and the Cheesemongers)
- 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 (2003))
- Colonial Navy - (Original Battlestar Galactica)
- Colonial Navy - (Earth Emprie Navy, Colony Wars)
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- Earth Commonwealth Navy - (I-War)
- 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
- Pacific
- South America
- Southeast Asia
- 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)
- Foundation Fleet - (The Foundation Trilogy)
- Free Worlds League Military - (Battletech)
- Global Defense Initative (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)
- The Helghast Armed Forces - (Killzone)
- The High Guard - (Military Forces of the Systems Commonwealth, 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)
- Galatic Patrol (Lensman series)
- Imperial Navy (The Foundation Series)
- Imperial Space Navy (The Mote In God's Eye)
- Forces of the Imperium - (Warhammer 40,000)
- Interplanetary Strategic Alliance (ISA) forces (Killzone)
- ISA Regulars
- Rapid Reaction Force (RRF)
- Shadow Marshalls
- Isengard Uruk-hai Army - (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)
- Japanese Special Self-Defense Forces (JSSDF) - (Gasaraki)
- Japanese Strategic Self-Defense Forces (JSSDF) - (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
- Jet Force - (Jet Force Gemini)
- The King's Own Fusiliers - (Soldier Soldier)
- 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: The Phantom Menance)
- Royal Palace Guard
- Security Guard
- Space Fighter Corps
- Neo-Zeon - (led by Haman Kahn, Double Zeta Gundam)
- OMNI Enforcer (Oppose Militancy and Neutralize Invasion) - (Gundam Seed)
- 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: Freespace)
- 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 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 Sourage - (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)
- Taiidan High Guard fleet - (Homeworld)
- Terran Confederation Navy (Wing Commander series)
- Terran Federation Armed Forces (Starship Troopers)
- Navy
- Army
- 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 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 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)
- United Nations Space Force (UNSF) - (Zone of Enders)
- United Nations Space Navy - Military Force of the UN during Man-Kizn War I (Known Space)
- United States Colonial Marines (USCM) - (Aliens)
- United States Space Marines - (Space: Above and Beyond)
- UN Protectorate Envoy Corps - (Altered Carbon)
- UN Spacy - (Macross)
- Warrior Monks - (Final Fantasy X)
- Zanzibar Land Guards (Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake)
- Zeon Military Force (ZMF) (Universal Century Gundam)
- Zeon Space Attack Force
- 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
- COBRA - (G.I. Joe)
- Confederacy of Independent Systems Droid Army -(Star Wars)
- Darah Dan Doa (Blood and Prayer) - (Indonesian terrorist group, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow)
- Devil Army (also known as the Dark Army, G Gundam)
- Delaz Fleet - (Gundam 0083)
- Desert Dawn - (Gundam SEED)
- Eridanus Human Rebels - (Halo: The Fall of Reach and Halo: First Strike)
- Free Jaffa - (Jaffa rebellion aginst the Goa'uld, Stargate SG-1)
- Free Wunderland Navy - (Man-Kzin Wars, Known Space)
- The Fremen - (Dune)
- Fedaykin (Fremen Death Commandos)
- Freedom Party - (Falkenburg's Legions series)
- Global Liberation Army (GLA) - (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)
- HYDRA - Marvel Comics
- Indies - (I-war)
- Jenoma People's Army - (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex)
- Knights of Genetic Purity - (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: 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
- 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 - (Falkenburg's Legions series)
- Mutant Liberation Front - (X-Force)
- Neo-Terran Front (NTF) - (led by Admiral Aken Bosch, 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 Resistance - (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)
- Space Revolutionary Army - (Gundam X)
- Separatists - (Covenant rebellion, Halo 2)
- Suliban Cabal -(Star Trek: Enterprise)
- Terra Prime - (Star Trek: Enterprise)
- Terran Rebellion - (Star Trek : Deep Space Nine)
- Three Ships Alliance - (Cylne 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 - (Falkenburg's Legions series)
- White Fang - (Gundam Wing)
- Zekistan Liberation Front - (Full Spectrum Warrior)
- 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 fleet, Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2)
- The Jaffa - (Goa'uld military strength, Stargate SG-1)
- 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)
- Protectors - Final Pak Stage of Development. Protects it's bloodline, defending aginst possible threats. (Known Space)
- Rangers - (Also known as Anla'Shok, Babylon 5)
- 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