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.
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Historic military alliances
- Wars of Scottish Independence
- Italian Wars
- 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 - 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
- League of Nations
- 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)
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Current military alliances
- United Nations
- 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
- ECOMOG of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
- 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
- Iraq war coalition - group of nations which have offered various degrees of support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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