INDFOR (short for “Independent Force” or “Independents”) is one of the possible sides in any mission. It is the “third” side in the BLUFOR-OPFOR-INDFOR triangle, representing forces that are not directly aligned with any of the world’s superpowers.

INDFOR can represent a variety of different third-world nations, paramilitaries, private military contractors, guerillas, terrorists or even criminals. It can even be used for civilians/VIPs. The only commonality between these is that they are unaligned with either BLUFOR or OPFOR, and may cooperate with or fight against either of these, both of these, or even switch allegiances between them during the mission itself.

If INDFOR players are armed at all, they may use any variety of weapons. Terrorist or Guerrilla INDFOR are typically armed with low-tech OPFOR weapons (AK-47s and similar old weapons), whereas PMCs can be armed with very modern weapons and auxiliary gear. Vehicles, if available, are similarly different from one type of INDFOR to the next. Heavy vehicles, such as tanks, jets or attack helicopters, are rarely available to INDFOR except for third-world nations as most INDEPFOR factions do not have the military infrastructure to support such vehicles.

INDFOR appears very rarely, though they appear more commonly in Adversarial missions. For examples. one such mission can consist of actually two different INDFOR sides: one involved as hostage-taking rebels; the other for the unarmed VIPs who were being traded. In Cooperative missions, INDFOR is usually the player side fighting against either an AI-controlled OPFOR or AI-controlled BLUFOR. Occasionally, INDFOR is used as a separate BLUFOR-aligned or OPFOR-aligned force that needs rescue, or simply operates under a completely separate command structure from the main player group (and sometimes with conflicting objectives).