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*** ''The Frozen Throne'', the expansion pack for ''Warcraft III'', had a three way war between the Forsaken (Undead) VS. Scourge (Undead) VS. Dread Lord Rebels (Undead) missions, and a couple Blood Elf vs. Alliance missions, the Blood Elves being a [[Cosmetically Different Sides|visually different but statistically identical splinter faction of the Alliance forces.]]

* ''[[Starcraft]]'' had this, sometimes extensively, in all the campaigns. The Terran campaigns featured widespread conflict between the various human factions and oftentimes missions involved fighting other Terrans rather than the alien invaders encroaching on Terran space. Zerg versus Zerg scenarios made more sense as they involved Zerg forces in disarray following the death of a unifying hive mind entity. The Protoss campaign however is the worst offender, with the Protoss leadership choosing to fight a civil war over a supposed heretic even as they were losing the battle to save their homeworld.

* The ''[[Command ~~and~~ Conquer]]'' games have this as well.

* The ''[[Command & Conquer]]'' games have this as well.

** The Nod campaign of Tiberian Sun starts off as a civil war between various factions of the group. Later there's a subversion where you hijack GDI equipment to fight the Forgotten (who are using Nod equipment).

** The Soviet campaigns in Red Alert 2 and 3 necessitates the elimination of another Soviet general whom the Soviet leader has declared [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|inconvenient to keep around.]] Of course it's only a matter of time before they try to do the same to you.

** And in Red Alert 3, when playing as the Allies {{spoiler|you have to attack an Allied base under the command of the Japanese android US president}}.

*** Red Alert 3: [[Expansion Pack|Uprising]] will have former Crown Prince of Japan Tatsu, now cooperating with the victorious Allies, going against the Japanese generals. {{spoiler|And once you've got rid of the rogue Japanese generals, he then goes and betrays you and uses all the stuff stolen from those generals to attack you!}}

** In ''[[Command ~~and~~ Conquer Generals]]'', the only faction that ever outright fights their own side in the ''main'' campaign is the GLA. Given that they're a massing of factions rather than an army of a particular country, this makes sense. The "Generals Campaign", however, pits a general of your choosing against each of the other available generals in sequence, including the ones that share your nationality. With there being 6-7 AI generals to choose from (In a non-modded version of the game, the Infantry and Demolition general levels are [[Dummied Out]]), in a campaign where 6 are randomly chosen to fight you, it is guaranteed that you will go up against someone who shares your nationality.

** In ''[[Command & Conquer: Generals]]'', the only faction that ever outright fights their own side in the ''main'' campaign is the GLA. Given that they're a massing of factions rather than an army of a particular country, this makes sense. The "Generals Campaign", however, pits a general of your choosing against each of the other available generals in sequence, including the ones that share your nationality. With there being 6-7 AI generals to choose from (In a non-modded version of the game, the Infantry and Demolition general levels are [[Dummied Out]]), in a campaign where 6 are randomly chosen to fight you, it is guaranteed that you will go up against someone who shares your nationality.

** In [[Command ~~and~~ Conquer]] 3, Nod missions at Sarajevo and Ayers Rock involve the player [[Magnificent Bastard|Kane]]-loyalist Nod army facing off against rogue Nod soldiers.

** In [[Command & Conquer]] 3, Nod missions at Sarajevo and Ayers Rock involve the player [[Magnificent Bastard|Kane]]-loyalist Nod army facing off against rogue Nod soldiers.

*** Also done well in the Kane's Wrath expansion, the first Act involves vanilla Nod forces fighting against the Black Hand, a subfaction.

** Command and Conquer 4 has you fighting your own faction no matter what side you choose. On top of that, the GDI campaign doesn't have you fighting renegade GDI soldiers, you ARE the renegade GDI soldiers.

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* In ''[[Act of War]]: Direct Action'', it is revealed {{spoiler|in the last few levels that an entire division of the U.S. Army has defected to the enemy team. No plausible explanation is given as to why they switch sides, nor how they were able to convince so many U.S. military personnel (including tank crews and air force pilots) to join them}}. The player then has to fight his own side.

** In the final level of the expansion ''High Treason'', {{spoiler|the bad guys also inexplicably get their hands on a ton of Task Force Talon equipment}}. The game makes no attempt whatsoever to explain how this occurred plot wise, and again the player must fight his own side.

** The Consortium has plenty of connections, merely telling a General of his division that the TFT has captured the president isn't too far of a stretch as Chamberlin was one of the Consortium members. For TFT, remember that the TFT was also forced to fight the US army remnants whom had confiscated TFT equipment while on the run.

* ''[[Homeworld]]: Cataclysm'' has an enemy whose main weapon is an infection beam that can instantly convert your units and send them back against you.

** somewhat averted in that larger craft sprout nasty, fungus-like nodes of beam-spewing death later on...