Military alliance

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\n**Auld Alliance - Scotland, Norway, France\n*Italian Wars\n**League of Cambrai - The Papal States, France, Aragon, Holy Roman Empire\n**Catholic League (Italian) - The Papal States, Venice, England, Aragon, Holy Roman Empire\n*Wars of the Schmalkaldic League\n**Schmalkaldic League - German Protestant States\n* Thirty Years War\n** Catholic League (German) - Bavaria, other Catholic German States\n** Protestant Union - Protestant German States\n*War of the Grand Alliance (Nine Years War)\n**League of Augsburg - Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Austria, other German states\n*War of the Spanish Succession\n**The Quadruple Alliance of 1718\n*Napoleonic Wars\n** The Quadruple Alliance of 1814/15 \n** First through Seventh Coalitions\n*The Quadruple Alliance of 1834\n* League of Nations\n* World War One\n**the Entente/the Allies - United Kingdom, France, Russia (to 1917), United States (from 1917)\n**the Central Powers - Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire\n* World War Two\n**the Axis - Germany, Japan, Italy\n**the Allies - United States (from 1941), United Kingdom, France, Soviet Union (from 1941)\n* Cold War\n** North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) -- United States, Canada, most of Western Europe (still an active alliance)\n** Warsaw Pact - Soviet Union, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia

Current Military Alliances

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - United States, Canada, most of Western Europe, parts of Eastern Europe\n*United Nations (UN) - 191 countries\n* Iraq war coalition - group of nations which have offered various degrees of support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.\nCategory:WarfareCategory:Laws of warCategory:Treaties