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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.

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Historic military alliances

Current military alliances

See also

Historic military alliances

★ Medic Wars

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★ Hellenic League - Athens, Lacedemonia, Macedon, others

★ Peloponnesian War

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★ League of Delos - Athens, Chios, Samos, Lesbos, others

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★ Peloponnesian League - Lacedemonia, Corinth, Elis, others

★ Wars of Scottish Independence

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★ Auld Alliance - Scotland, Norway, France

★ Italian Wars

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★ League of Cambrai - The Papal States, France, Aragon, Holy Roman Empire

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★ Catholic League (Italian) - The Papal States, Venice, England, Aragon, Holy Roman Empire

★ Schmalkaldic War

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★ Schmalkaldic League - German Protestant States

★ Anglo-Portuguese Alliance - England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal, since 1373

★ Luso-Islamic War

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★ Ethio-Portuguese Treaties - Portugal, Ethiopia

★ Thirty Years' War

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★ Catholic League (German) - Bavaria, other Catholic German States

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★ Protestant Union - Protestant German States

★ War of the Grand Alliance (Nine Years War)

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★ League of Augsburg - The Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Austria, other German states

★ War of the Spanish Succession

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★ The Quadruple Alliance of 1718

★ Napoleonic Wars

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★ The Quadruple Alliance of 1814/15

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★ First through Seventh Coalitions

★ The Quadruple Alliance of 1834

★ World War I

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★ the Entente and the Allies - United Kingdom, France, Russia (to 1917), United States (from 1917)

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★ the Central Powers - Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria

★ World War II

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★ the Axis - Germany, Japan, Italy, many others.

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★ the Allies - United Kingdom, France, Soviet Union, United States, Canada, Poland, Republic of China, many others.

★ Cold War

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★ Western European Union (WEU) - currently in process of merging into CFSP and ESDP (see below)

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★ North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) -- United States, Canada, most of Western Europe (''still an active alliance'')

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★ Warsaw Pact - Soviet Union, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria

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★ SEATO - United States, United Kingdom, France, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Thailand, Philippines

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★ CENTO - United States, United Kingdom, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan

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★ ANZUS - United States, Australia, New Zealand (''still an active alliance'')

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★ Five Powers Pact - 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.

★ 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) - Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, United Kingdom.

★ 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 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.

★ Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Pact) - All the countries of the Americas

★ Regional Security System (RSS) - several Eastern Caribbean countries.

See also

★ Collective defense

★ Collective security