- Military alliance
A military alliance is an agreement between two, or more, military factions; related to
war time planning, commitments, or contingencies; such agreements can be both defensive and offensive. Military alliances often involve non-military agreements, in addition to their primary purpose.Historic military alliances
*Medic Wars
**Hellenic League -Athens , Lacedemonia,Macedon , others
*Peloponnesian War
**League of Delos -Athens ,Chios , Samos,Lesbos , others
**Peloponnesian League - Lacedemonia,Corinth ,Elis , others
*Wars of Scottish Independence
**Auld Alliance -Scotland ,Norway ,France
*Italian Wars
**League of Cambrai - ThePapal States ,France ,Aragon ,Holy Roman Empire
**Catholic League (Italian) - ThePapal States ,Venice ,England ,Aragon ,Holy Roman Empire
*Schmalkaldic War
**Schmalkaldic League - German Protestant States
*Anglo-Portuguese Alliance -England (succeeded by theUnited Kingdom ) andPortugal , since 1373
*Luso-Islamic War
**Ethio-Portuguese Treaties - Portugal,Ethiopia
*Thirty Years' War
**Catholic League (German) -Bavaria , otherCatholic German States
**Protestant Union -Protestant German States
*War of the Grand Alliance (Nine Years War)
**League of Augsburg -The Netherlands ,Holy Roman Empire ,Spain ,Austria , other German states
*War of the Spanish Succession
**The Quadruple Alliance of 1718
*Napoleonic Wars
** The Quadruple Alliance of 1814/15
** First through Seventh Coalitions
*The Quadruple Alliance of 1834
*Anglo-Japanese Alliance -United Kingdom andJapan
*World War I
**the Entente and the Allies -Russian empire (to 1917),United Kingdom ,France ,Serbia ,New Zealand ,Australia ,Romania (from 1916),United States (from 1917)
**the Central Powers -Germany ,Austria-Hungary ,Ottoman Empire ,Bulgaria
*World War II
**the Axis - Germany, Japan, Italy, and many others.
**the Allies -United States ,United Kingdom and theCommonwealth ,Soviet Union ,France ,Republic of China , many others.
*Cold War
**Western European Union (WEU) - currently in process of merging into CFSP and ESDP (see below)
** North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) -- United States, Canada, most of Western Europe ("still an active alliance")
**Warsaw Pact - Soviet Union,East Germany ,Bulgaria ,Hungary ,Poland ,Czechoslovakia ,Romania
**SEATO - United States, United Kingdom, France,Australia ,New Zealand ,Pakistan ,Thailand ,Philippines
**CENTO - United States, United Kingdom,Turkey ,Iran ,Iraq ,Pakistan
**ANZUS - United States, Australia, New Zealand ("still an active alliance")
** Five Powers Pact - Australia,Malaysia , New Zealand,Singapore , United Kingdom ("still an active alliance")Current military alliances
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North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) -United States ,United Kingdom ,Canada , most ofWestern Europe andCentral Europe , parts ofEastern Europe , andTurkey .
* Major non-NATO allies of theUnited States -Argentina ,Australia ,Bahrain ,Egypt ,Israel ,Japan ,Jordan ,Kuwait ,Morocco ,New Zealand ,Pakistan ,Philippines ,South Korea ,Thailand .
*Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) -Russia ,Belarus ,Armenia ,Kazakhstan ,Kyrgyzstan ,Tajikistan ,Uzbekistan .
*Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) andEuropean Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) of theEuropean Union .
*Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) -United Kingdom ,Australia ,New Zealand ,Malaysia ,Singapore .
*ANZUS Treaty (ANZUS) -United States ,Australia ,New Zealand .
*ECOMOG ofEconomic Community of West African States .
*Council for Peace and Security in Central Africa (COPAX) ofEconomic Community of Central African States .
*Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Pact) - Most of the countries of theAmericas .
*North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) -United States andCanada . NORAD and other defense agreements (such as the Permanent Joint Board on Defense) form the most extensive defense alliance in the world.
*Regional Security System (RSS) - severalEastern Caribbean countries.
*Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) - China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan.See also
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Collective defense
*Collective security
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