Military alliance
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A military alliance is an agreement between two, or more, military factions; related to wartime 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.
[edit] 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
- Italian Wars
- Wars of the Schmalkaldic League
- Schmalkaldic League - German Protestant States
- Luso-Islamic War
- Thirty Years' War
- Catholic League (German) - Bavaria, other Catholic 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
- Napoleonic Wars
- The Quadruple Alliance of 1814/15
- First through Seventh Coalitions
- The Quadruple Alliance of 1834
- World War I
- the Entente and the the Allies - United Kingdom, France, Russia (to 1917), United States (from 1917)
- the Central Powers - Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
- World War II
- the Axis - Germany, Japan, Italy, many others.
- the Allies - United Kingdom, France, Soviet Union, United States, Canada, 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, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria
- 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)
[edit] Current military alliances
- North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) - United States, Canada, most of Western Europe and Central Europe, and parts of Eastern Europe.
- Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) - Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan.
- Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) - Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and 4 observer countires Iran, India, Pakistan, Mongolia.
- Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) of the European Union.
- Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) - Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, United Kingdom.
- ANZUS Treaty (ANZUS) - United States, Australia, New Zealand.
- ECOMOG of Economic Community of West African States.
- Luanda Protocol - Angola, Zimbabwe, Namibia and DRC
- Council for Peace and Security in Central Africa (COPAX) of ECCAS.
- North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) - United States and Canada. NORAD and other defense agreements (such as the Permanent Joint Board on Defense) form the most extensive defense alliance in the world.
- "Coalition of the Willing" - group of nations which have offered various degrees of support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
