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Military alliance A
military alliance is an
agreement between two, or more,
countries ; 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 *
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 ,
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 )
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 .
*
Collective defense *
Collective security
