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* In the French novel series ''Langelot'', there's a rivalry between the two French counterespionage agencies depicted : the fictional secretive shadow agency S.N.I.F (where the titular main protagonist is an agent of) and the [[Real Life]] D.S.T. The D.S.T. resents the S.N.I.F.'s secretive nature and wish they would be put in the same front and light as them, while the S.N.I.F. basically considers the D.S.T. as a bunch of pompous and dull idiots.

* In the Aiel War in the backstory of the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' series, this is one of the many reasons the "Grand Alliance" has trouble standing up to the Aiel invasion, though eventually they pull things together and arrange a rotation of generals. Well, what do you expect when the [[Witch Species|Aes Sedai]] and the [[Burn the Witch|Children]] [[Knight Templar|of the Light]] are fighting on the same side?

* Common in the [[Star Trek Novel Verse]]. In the Klingon Empire, the Klingon Defense Force and Imperial Intelligence hold each other in considerable distaste. In particular, there's a subplot in [[Star Trek Klingon Empire]] involving I.I's displeasure with Captain Klag, and his [[Honor Before Reason]] tactics. Also, in the [[Star Trek ~~the~~ Lost Era]] novel ''The Art of the Impossible'', Captain Qaolin of the Defence Force and his Imperial Intelligence liasion ''really'' don't like each other - again, because the berserker battle-hungry tendencies of the warriors clash with I.I's "dishonourable" sneakiness and caution. The Klingons aren't the only ones; the Romulan military takes its codes of honour, and the passionate brotherhood between warriors, very seriously. The cool, passionless underhanded tactics of the Tal Shiar intelligence agency therefore offend them, as does their tendency to question a warrior's loyalty. The Tal Shiar, for their part, view the military leadership as inbred, unimaginative fools. Then there's Cardassia, where [[Interservice Rivalry]] is endemic, particularly between the Central Command and the Obsidian Order. In the first [[Terok Nor]] novel, Skrain Dukat sums up Central Command's angle on the Order:

* Common in the [[Star Trek Novel Verse]]. In the Klingon Empire, the Klingon Defense Force and Imperial Intelligence hold each other in considerable distaste. In particular, there's a subplot in [[Star Trek: Klingon Empire]] involving I.I's displeasure with Captain Klag, and his [[Honor Before Reason]] tactics. Also, in the [[Star Trek: The Lost Era]] novel ''The Art of the Impossible'', Captain Qaolin of the Defence Force and his Imperial Intelligence liasion ''really'' don't like each other - again, because the berserker battle-hungry tendencies of the warriors clash with I.I's "dishonourable" sneakiness and caution. The Klingons aren't the only ones; the Romulan military takes its codes of honour, and the passionate brotherhood between warriors, very seriously. The cool, passionless underhanded tactics of the Tal Shiar intelligence agency therefore offend them, as does their tendency to question a warrior's loyalty. The Tal Shiar, for their part, view the military leadership as inbred, unimaginative fools. Then there's Cardassia, where [[Interservice Rivalry]] is endemic, particularly between the Central Command and the Obsidian Order. In the first [[Terok Nor]] novel, Skrain Dukat sums up Central Command's angle on the Order:

{{quote| The Obsidian Order represented everything that was cancerous about Cardassia; they were an institutionalized form of decay that preyed on the military and the people even as they pretended to serve the same ends as Central Command. }}

* Endemic in [[The Laundry Series]] by [[Charles Stross]]. Many members of an above-top-secret agency that combats [[Eldritch Abomination|EldritchAbominations]] consider its archenemy to be ... Human Resources. Political maneuvering among various managers -- and the protagonist always has two -- feeds the conflict as much or more than brain-eating horrors from other universes.