Military alliance
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A military alliance is an agreement between two, or more, countries; 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.
Historic military alliances
- Wars of Scottish Independence
- *Auld Alliance - Scotland, Norway, France
- Italian Wars
- *League of Cambrai - The Papal States, France, Aragon, Holy Roman Empire
- *Catholic League (Italian) - The Papal States, Venice, England, Aragon, Holy Roman Empire
- Wars of the Schmalkaldic League
- *Schmalkaldic League - German Protestant States
- 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
- *The Quadruple Alliance of 1718
- 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
- World War II
- *the Axis - Germany, Japan, Italy, many others.
- *the Allies - United Kingdom, France, Soviet Union, United States, 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)
Current military alliances
- North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) - United States, Canada, most of Western Europe, parts of Eastern Europe
- Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) - Russia, China, Iran, India, Pakistan, and most of Central Asia
- Council for Peace and Security in Central Africa (COPAX) of ECCAS.
- Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) - Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
- Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) of the European Union
- ANZUS - United States, Australia, New Zealand
- Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) - Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
- Iraqi War Coalition - group of nations which have offered various degrees of support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
See also
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