The Green Brigade is an environmentalist terrorist group seen in the novel that was being supplied by the Russians. The Forgotten Army is a splinter group of the Green Brigade. The group is also known as the Green Brigade Transnational.
The Green Brigade is an eco-terrorist organization featured in the novelization. Led by Green Vox, it was originally formed in 2012 and conducted terrorist attacks throughout the world, primarily in Europe and South America. Between 2012 and 2018, they reportedly committed more than a thousand acts of violence, including intimidating factory and refinery workers and the kidnapping and murder of business executives, military personnel, and computer scientists.
In Green Brigade uniforms, the Russian Federation, impersonated the Green Brigade hijacked a satellite and destroyed the Freedom IV, the lifter carrying the final piece of the Freedom Star, a controversial orbital platform that the United States was constructing to deploy U.S Marines in any war situation. The Green Brigade planted the nuclear weapons for Operation: 2659. That plot was stymied by U.S. NEST teams.
The book also makes references to a base in Bulgaria where there was a Green Brigade training camp, possibly meaning that the Green Brigade is a European group.
The Green Brigade is also referenced in EndWar's game files, with audio files indicating they were meant to have been fought at some point in the Theater of War, but this was cut from the final game. However, Forgotten Army soldiers will reference Gaia and an eco-terrorist ideology.[1] Cut content for the game indicates that the Green Brigades were originally meant to be present in the Prelude to War as well, replacing the Forgotten Army, and with several additional expanded missions.