Shadow Company

The Shadow Company is an enemy faction featured in the game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and headed by their commander General Shepherd, the antagonist of the game.

History
The Shadow Company made their first appearance in the mission Loose Ends during the third act of the game, under the command of General Shepherd. The Shadow Company appear to be a government Black Ops unit of some kind and most likely mercenaries and seem to be doing illegal activities for Shepherd. They may also be a Private Military Contractor as Shepherd is getting them to do activities the US Government might no know about. Either way, they are take any order from Shepherd, if that even means breaking the law.

Shepherd became supreme commander of the Shadow Company in his hunt to find and eliminate Russian Terrorist Vladimir Makarov and is given a blank check to use any resources needed. When a part of Shepherd's task force, titled Task Force 141 are securing intel at Makarov's safehouse, the Shadow Company appear as friendlies to evacuate members Ghost and Roach. However Shepherd betrays them by shooting them and secures the DSM, before he then gets his Shadow Company to dump the bodies in a ditch and set them alright. He then tries to eliminate members John Price and Soap MacTavish who are at another location looking for Makarov.

While at their base Hotel Site Bravo, it gets infiltrated by Price and Soap. Shepherd, using his new soldiers as bodyguards, gets them to help him escape on a Zodiac. Price shoots down Shepherd's helicopter near a waterfall, and Price and Soap manage to eliminate Shepherd after Soap throws a knife through his eye.

The Shadow Company are absent from Modern Warfare 3, however a container with their logo can be seen.

Trivia
They are the first enemy faction in the Call of Duty series to be American.