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| image = [[Image:Army 08th (SLDF) logo.png|150px]]
| Designation = Eighth Army
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| Affiliation = [[Star League]]
| Parent Command = [[2nd Army Group (Star League)|Second Army Group]] (2764<ref name=fmsldf105>''Field Manual: SLDF'', p. 105: "Eighth Army"</ref> - 2772)<ref name="H:LOTv1p120">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', pp. 120–121: "Operation CHIEFTAIN Star League Defense Forces Order of Battle"</ref>
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The [[Star League Defense Force]]'s '''Eighth Army''' was assigned to operations within the [[Free Worlds League Military Region]].<ref name="TSLp141">''The Star League'', p. 141: "Eighth Army"</ref><ref name=fmsldf105/>
==Overview==
The Eighth Army was the primary army of Army Group Marik, and shared a headquarters with that formation. Its primary area of responsibility found it covering the worlds of the [[Marik Commonwealth]].<ref name=fmsldf105/>

==History==
In [[2764]] the Eighth Army was assigned to the First District of the Free Worlds League region, with their headquarters on [[Talitha]]. Though traditionally the Eighth had a good working relationship with the [[Free Worlds League]], that changed in [[2734]] with the signature of the Treaty of Verona. This treaty ended the civil war between [[Bertram Marik]] and [[Parliament]]. The citizens of the Eighth's area of responsibility (and the ruling Marik family) were outraged that the SLDF forces didn't step in and stop the fighting. This noninterference, though required by Star League accords, was seen as many Free Worlders as the SLDF neglecting its sworn duties. As a result, many members of the Free Worlds nobility treated the Eighth with barely concealed contempt.<ref name=fmsldf105/>

In response to the [[New Vandenberg Uprising]] of [[2765]], its four corps would be repositioned to the Second and Third Districts, filling in the gaps left open by the [[9th Army (Star League)|Ninth Army]] and [[10th Army (Star League)|Tenth Army]] fighting in the [[Periphery]].<ref name="TSLp141"/> The Eighth also received twenty-nine Regiments from the [[1st Army (Star League)|First Army]] to reinforce it as it took on the much larger area of responsibility, bolstering the large number of Independent Regiments that went with the Eighth's mobile army structure.<ref name="H:LoTv1p43">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 43: "Eighth Army"</ref>

However, the uprising had been secretly orchestrated by [[Stefan Amaris]] to accomplish his [[Amaris Civil War|takeover of the Star League]]. The Eighth Army would fight in the resulting Hegemony Campaign and suffer heavy casualties. Of the few divisions which would survive to [[2784]], 11 would join [[Operation Exodus]], with the rest either disbanding or joining other [[Great House]] armies.<ref name="TSLp141"/>

By mid-July [[2772]] the Eighth Army was ready to take part in [[Operation CHIEFTAIN]], the liberation of the [[Terran Hegemony]]. Serving alongside the [[20th Army (Star League)|Twentieth Army]] and the [[12th Volunteer Brigade (SLDF)|Twelfth Volunteer Brigade]], the Eighth was a major component of the [[2nd Army Group (SLDF)|Second Army Group]]. The Second Army Group, [[15th Army Group (SLDF)|Fifteenth Army Group]] and [[20th Army Group (SLDF)|Twentieth Army Group]] made up [[Task Force Commonwealth (SLDF)|Task Force Commonwealth]], under the overall command of [[Admiral]] [[Joan Brandt]].<ref name="H:LOTV1p120">''Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1'', p. 120: "Operation CHIEFTAIN"</ref>

==Officers==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Rank
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Name
! scope="col" width="220" style="background: #dedede;" | Command
|-
| colspan="4" style="background: #efefef;" | '''Commanding Officers of the 8th Army'''
|-
| [[General]]||[[Loftus Cassion]]||[[2758]]<ref name=fmsldf105/>
|-
| [[General]]||[[Amar Watanabe]]||[[2759]]-[[2765]]<ref name="H:LoTv1p43"/><ref name=fmsldf105/>
|}

==Tactics==
Different per Unit.

== Corps of the Eighth Army ==
*[[III Corps (Star League)|III Corps]]
*[[VII Corps (Star League)|VII Corps]]
*[[XIX Corps (Star League)|XIX Corps]]
*[[XXV Corps (Star League)|XXV Corps]]

== Composition History ==
=== 2765 ===
* 6 [[BattleMech]] [[Division]]s<ref name="H:LoTv1p43"/>
* 16 [[Infantry]] Divisions<ref name="H:LoTv1p43"/>
* 27 Independent Regiments<ref name="H:LoTv1p43"/>

=== 2772 ===
* 6 BattleMech Divisions<ref name="H:LOTV1p120"/>
* 16 Infantry Divisions<ref name="H:LOTV1p120"/>
* 26 Independent Regiments<ref name="H:LOTV1p120"/>

==References==
<references/>

==Bibliography==
* ''[[Field Manual: SLDF]]''
* ''[[Historical: Liberation of Terra Volume 1]]''
* ''[[The Star League]]''

[[Category:Star League Defense Force Commands - Army|Army, 0008th]]

8th Army (Star League) - Revision history

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