Artistic Forces/American Defense Alliance

"We fight for peace and freedom!"

- The voice when the SDA is selected in the Campaign mode. The State Defense Alliance is one of the factions of Artistic Forces.

Description
Dominantly led by the United States of America, formed with its human alliances (such as NATO) and their good relationships between countries, organized around the country and its territories, supported by the United States Military, the CIA, and the government, and fashioned into a military alliance, the State Defense Alliance is technologically advanced faction of humanity that arose to skillfully fight with a combination of highly technological tactics, superior firepower, expeditionary warfare, and a large, versatile, powerful arsenal of ground, air and naval units. Its military power relies on skill, mobility, and advanced technology to usefully beat its enemies and their tactics with their survival skills. In addition to its organization, it probably consists of the US military forces, military alliances and military contractors that supplied their arsenals to bring its life. Its arsenal of military weapons and equipment is mostly American, but some of them are imported from Great Britain, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Canada and South Africa.

The SDA has also a political structure that inspires the US constitution and American ideological values like liberty, capitalism, patriotism, loyalism, security and prosperity to keep the peace and its survival accordingly.

History
TBA

Strategy
The SDA is a technologically advanced, cutting-edged faction, which functionally describes about quality over quantity, with an arsenal of both specialized units such as Snipers and ADSs as well as versatile multipurpose units like Humvees, General Purpose APCs, and Vipers. This versatility carries on into a match with competent defenses and units, including infantry, drones, vehicles, aircraft, and vessels.

This faction can also utilize a battleplan system, allowing one to amplify a certain element of their forces; be it range, damage or armor. Thus the SDA is always ready for any combat situations - be it against the opposing factions, such as the girlish Josei Guntai, the insidious Mutant Horde, the devious IMC, the sneaky Militant Insurgents, the oppressively brutish Totalitarian Empire, the stealthy Possessed, the technologically defensive RSSDF, and even the tank-heavy CCS.

The SDA also possess highly technological laser weapons in their arsenal. These lasers are an important part of the American arsenal as it can defend incoming ballistic projectile such as missiles or rockets, as a PDL (Point Defense Laser); or as a direct weapon, like the ones used on the Laser Humvees.

Also of important note is the versatility and efficiency of the American air power when fielded effectively. From attack helicopters to bombers and transports, the SDA can bring a lot of air assets to a battle. Upgrades are available for purchase that specifically improve these aircraft.

However, these units are either expensive or cheap than their counterparts, thus they must be managed properly. Losing one or more of these is a heavy blow to the SDA.

Tactics
The SDA mainly emphasizes highly advanced, but often experimental, technology with precise targeting and well trained infantry, and even superior firepower. In addition, as an American faction, most of its military assets are based on real-world American military hardware, including weapons, vehicles, aircraft, and even vessels. For a form of combined arms, it strategically commands a powerfully joint American military with 4 branches : Army, which includes battle tanks, IFVs, armored cars, all-terrain vehicles, highly mobile vehicles, and even helicopters, Navy, which includes patrol boats, frigates, destroyers, cruisers, submarines, stealth ships, and aircraft carriers, Marine Corps, which includes amphibious vehicles, and Air Force, which includes the multirole fighters, air superiority fighters, stealth aircraft, and bombers. Its factional superweapon of choice, the ICBM Silo, allows for more firepower with a radius of a destructively devastating nuclear blast from the nuclear-powered, intercontinental ballistic missile known as the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD). With a vast amount of intelligence-gathering resources available, SDA commanders are scarcely seen making any blundering errors when engaging the enemy, regularly picking the correct weak spots as indicated by their satellite scans. Most of their units are of high quality, despite more expensive than any of their counterparts. While their high technology greatly augments the fighting capabilities of the SDA, it comes at very high costs. This, combined with their slow economy, forces them to field a smaller and more specialized army, navy, marine corps, and air force.

Technological level
The technological level of the SDA is obviously advanced due to the use of proven high-tech weaponry that can outpower, outclass and out-tech the other factions.

Some technologies and firepower used by the SDA:


 * 1) Advanced superweapons
 * 2) Superior firepower
 * 3) Field generators, nuclear reactors, and other technologically advanced reactors
 * 4) Advanced army
 * 5) Advanced navy
 * 6) Advanced air force
 * 7) Advanced marine corps
 * 8) Air superiority
 * 9) Ground superiority
 * 10) Naval superiority
 * 11) Lasers
 * 12) Target Designator Lasers
 * 13) Point Defense Laser
 * 14) Spy Satellites
 * 15) Intelligence
 * 16) Advanced Defenses
 * 17) Unmanned combat systems

Sub-factions
The SDA has three sub-factions: the Combined Joint Marine Corps with the emphasis of amphibious and expeditionary warfare in supportive cooperation with the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and Coastal Guard, fusing these military branches together into one, the western-themed, magical, Rough Riders, and the ferocius Canadian Assault Expedition.

Combined Joint Marine Corps
Together with the support of the 5 branches of the U.S. Armed Forces and their multiple military operations, the American ad hoc maritime land service sub-faction known as the SDA Combined Joint Marine Corps (CJMC) utilizes amphibious and expeditionary tactics within the superiority of the American regular military coalition as a form of combined arms and joint warfare.

Rough Riders
With the support of the Native Americans and Mexico, the Rough Riders, many of whom are natives from Texas and the southern states, embrace their nation's roots of the wild west, trading the SDA advanced technology for older, if more reliable, guns, cannons, cavalry, and magic, and using rapid hit and run raiding with armored cars and motorcycles.

Canadian Assault Expedition
The Canadian branch of the SDA, the Canadian Assault Expedition (CAE), remembering their nation's reputation in WW1, trades most of the SDA defensive equipment and artillery for stronger, close-ranged, weaponry, favoring aggressive, CQC assaults support by their airforce.

Member states

 * United States of America/USA (prominent leader)
 * Puerto Rico
 * Guam
 * U.S. Virgin Islands
 * U.S. Minor Outlaying Island
 * American Samoa
 * Northern Mariana Islands

Commanders

 * President Harold Briggs: President of the United States and commander-in-chief of the SDA
 * Field Marshal Doug Parmer: Supreme Commander of the SDA
 * General William Ironsides: SDA Space Force Commander
 * General Dennis Bradley: SDA Tank and Army Commander
 * Air Chief Marshal Brandon Stryker: SDA Air Force Commander
 * Major General Malcolm Thornton: SDA Marine Commander
 * Admiral Michael Spencer: SDA Coastal Guard and Naval Commander
 * Brigadier General Omar Shrapnel: SDA Marine and Army Commander
 * Colonel Darren Shepard: SDA Marine Commander
 * Lieutenant Richard Wulfric: SDA Army Commander

Agents

 * Captain Burt Arlington: SDA Commando Team Leader
 * Major Roland Jefferson: SDA Expeditionary Team Leader
 * Major Andy Burton: SDA Terrain Agent (hero unit)
 * Colonel Tim Sullivan: SDA Marine Agent (hero unit)
 * Martin Alper II: SDA Communications Officer (announcer)

Trivia

 * The SDA is heavily based on the United States of America, with its armed forces including US Army, US Air Force, US Navy and US Marine Corps, and NATO as one of its founding members among Canada and the western European allies, especially during Cold War era. This also adds many of America's other military alliances.
 * Like Russia being the dominant leader of the CCS, the USA became dominant as the factional leader of the SDA.
 * The SDA's arsenal of military assets, including weapons, drones, vehicles, aircraft and vessels, are all based on the US Armed Forces and other American inventions, even though some of them are the exports from other countries like Italy, Canada, Great Britain, Austria, Germany and South Africa.
 * The gameplay of the SDA is inspired by the USA from Command & Conquer: Generals (including Rise of the Reds and Contra mods), Act of War, Act of Aggression and Company of Heroes, Task Force Talon from Act of War, Allies from the Command & Conquer: Red Alert universe, Survivors from the KKND series, the GDI from the Command & Conquer series and Terran from the StarCraft series.
 * In an early draft of the development of Artistic Forces, the SDA is originally a NATO-influenced faction, but has later been changed into an American faction as its proper replacement due to the fact that their units and weapons are based on real-world modern and experimental military assets of the United States Armed Forces, including some American technological inventions.
 * The factional emblem of the SDA is an influence of the NATO and American (Old Glory) flags and Captain America's shield, making it a symbol of American culture.