39,327
edits
m (Mass update links) |
m (update links) |
||
Line 101:
* 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:
{{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.
|