military alliance
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.
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 - The Papal States, France, Aragon, Holy Roman Empire
*Catholic League (Italian) - The Papal States, Venice, England, Aragon, Holy Roman Empire
Schmalkaldic War
*Schmalkaldic League - German Protestant States
Anglo-Portuguese Alliance - England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal, since 1373
Luso-Islamic War
*Ethio-Portuguese Treaties - Portugal, Ethiopia
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
Anglo-Japanese Alliance - United Kingdom and Japan
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 the Commonwealth, 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 Power Defence Arrangements - Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom (still an active alliance)
Current military alliances
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) - United States, United Kingdom, Canada, most of Western Europe and Central Europe, parts of Eastern Europe, and Turkey.
Major non-NATO allies of the United 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) and European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) of the European Union.
Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) - United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore.
ANZUS Treaty (ANZUS) - United States, Australia, New Zealand.
ECOMOG of Economic Community of West African States.
Council for Peace and Security in Central Africa (COPAX) of Economic Community of Central African States.
Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Pact) - Most of the countries of the Americas.
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.
Regional Security System (RSS) - several Eastern Caribbean countries.
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) - China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan.
See also
Collective defense
Collective security
Separate peace
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