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Robotech Defense Force

The United Earth Forces that were established and based on Earth to defend against alien aggression.

Often abbreviated as RDF, the colloquial name of the United Earth Forces that were established and based on Earth to defend against alien aggression after the arrival of Robotechnology. With the decimation of the RDF by two successive Robotech Wars and the occupation of the Earth by the Invid, the surviving remnants of the force were loosely organized into a resistance effort to liberate the planet.