Military alliance
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A military alliance is an agreement between two, or more, countries; related to wartime planning, commitments, and/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
- 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/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, many others.
- Cold War
- 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 active alliance)
- Five Powers Pact - Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
Current military alliances
- United Nations
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - United States, Canada, most of Western Europe, parts of Eastern Europe
- Iraq war coalition - group of nations which have offered various degrees of support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
- Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) - Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan. (see CIS article for details.
- Five Powers Pactet:Liit (poliitika)