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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.
Historical
Vedic Period
- 1700–1000 BC Ten tribes formed alliance against Tritsu in [[Battle of the Ten Kings|Battle of ten kings
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Hellenic Period
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- 502–449 BC Medic Wars
- Hellenic League - Athens, Lacedemonia, Macedon, others
- 431–404 BC Peloponnesian War
- League of Delos - Athens, Argos, Chios, Samos, Lesbos, others
- Peloponnesian League - Lacedemonia, Corinth, Thebes, Syracuse, others
Middle Ages
- 634–1853 Christian-Islamic Wars
- Crusades - France, England, Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Republic of Venice
- Reconquista - Portugal, Castile
- Jihad - Fatimid Caliphate, Sultanate of Damascus
- Ethio-Portuguese Treaties - Portugal, Ethiopia
- 1337–1453 100 Years War
Early modern period
- 1494–1559 Italian Wars
- 1546–1547 Schmalkaldic War
- Schmalkaldic League - German Protestant States
- 1571 Christian-Islamic Wars
- Holy League - Papal States, Spain, Republic of Venice, others
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War
- Catholic League (German) - Bavaria, other Catholic German States
- Protestant Union - Protestant German States
- Treaty of Nonsuch - Dutch Republic, England
- 1683–1699 Great Turkish War (War of the Holy League)
- 1688–1697 War of the Grand Alliance (Nine Years' War)
- League of Augsburg - The Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Austria, other German states
- 1700-1721 Great Northern War
- Anti-Swedish alliance - Russia, Denmark–Norway, Saxony, Poland-Lithuania, Prussia and Hanover
- 1717 Christian-Islamic Wars
- 1775-1783 American Revolutionary War
- Native Americans
- Allied with Britain: Cayugas, Cherokees, Creeks, Mohawks, Onondagas, Senecas
- Allied with Americans: Oneidas, Stockbridge, Tuscaroras
- Treaty of Alliance, 1778-1800 - United States, France
- Treaty of Aranjuez, 1779-1783 - France, Spain
- First League of Armed Neutrality, 1780-1783 - Russia, Denmark-Norway, Sweden, Prussia, the Holy Roman Empire, the Dutch Republic, Portugal, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the Ottoman Empire
- Native Americans
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- 1803–1815 Napoleonic Wars
- The Quadruple Alliance of 1814/15 - United Kingdom, Austria, Prussia and Russia.
- First through Seventh Coalitions
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- 1815–1825 Absolutist-Liberal conflicts
- The Quadruple Alliance of 1834
- 1853–1856 Crimean War
- Alliance of France, Britain, the Ottoman Empire and Sardinia.
- 1873–1878 & 1881-1887 League of the Three Emperors - Russian Empire, Austria-Hungary and German Empire
- 1879–1918 Dual Alliance - Austria-Hungary and German Empire
- 1882–1914 Triple Alliance - German Empire, Austria–Hungary and Kingdom of Italy
- 1892–1917 Franco-Russian Alliance - French Third Republic and Russian Empire
- 1899-1901 Boxer Rebellion
- Eight-Nation Alliance - Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Twentieth century
- First Balkan War
- 1912–1913 Balkan League - Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Serbia
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- World War I
- 1902–1923 Anglo-Japanese Alliance - United Kingdom and Japan
- 1907–1918 the Entente and the Allies - Russian empire (to 1917), United Kingdom, France, Italy, Serbia, Romania, Portugal (from 1916)
- 1914–1918 the Central Powers - Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
- Interwar period
- 1920-1938 Little Entente - Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia
- 1931-1945 Second Sino-Japanese War (After Pearl Harbor, folded into the greater World War II.)
- 1931-1938 - Republic of China, Germany
- 1937-1941 Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact - Republic of China, Soviet Union
- 1941-1942 American Volunteer Group - Republic of China, United States
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- World War II
- 1939–1945 the Allies - United States, United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, Soviet Union, Poland, France, Republic of China, many others.
- 1940–1945 the Axis - Germany, Japan, Italy, and many others.
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- Cold War
- 1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Pact) - Most of the countries of the Americas.
- 1948-2011 Western European Union (WEU) - limited role. Merged with EU in 2009.
- 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) -- United States, Canada, most of Western Europe
- 1951 ANZUS Treaty (ANZUS) - United States, Australia, New Zealand.
- 1954–1977 SEATO - United States, United Kingdom, France, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Thailand, Philippines
- 1955–1979 CENTO - United States, United Kingdom, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan
- 1955-1980 Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty - United States, Republic of China
- 1955–1991 Warsaw Pact - Soviet Union, East Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania
- 1958 North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) - United States and Canada.
- 1971 Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) - United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore.
- 1981 ECOMOG of Economic Community of West African States.
- 1982 Regional Security System (RSS) - several Eastern Caribbean countries.
- 1989 Major non-NATO allies of the United States (MNNA) - Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand.
Contemporary Security Alliances
Europe
NATO, Enlarged from 1999 to include eastern European states. Twenty eight countries including the United States, Canada and most of Europe including Turkey.
Entente Cordiale / Defence and Security Co-operation Treaty is a joint Military alliance between France and the United Kingdom.
Franco-German Brigade is a joint French-German Brigade.
BALTRON is a joint Estonian—Latvian—Lithuanian Naval Squadron.
Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, originally signed in 1373, is the oldest alliance still in force in the world.
Eurasia
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), formed in 1992 in after the collapse of the Soviet Union - Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan.
- Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), formed in 1996 to counterbalance NATO expansion - China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Organization of the Eurasian Law Enforcement Agencies with Military Status (TAKM) is an intergovernmental military co-operation organization of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia.
Middle East
Arab League
File:Leb.tif Axis of Resistance
Israel & the United States.
Peninsula Shield Force The military force of the Persian Gulf nations of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, and Bahrain
- Multinational Force and Observers
United States - Asia
Japan and the United States entered into a security alliance following the allied occupation after WWII.
South Korea and the United States entered into a military alliance following the Korean War.
Mutual Defense Treaty (U.S.–Philippines) is a joint US-Philippine Defence Treaty.
Africa
- African Union
- Peace and Security Council (PSC)
- African Standby Force (ASF)
- Economic Community of Central African States
- Economic Community of West African States
The Americas
Other regions
United Nations
ABCA Armies
ANZUS is a joint military alliance between the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
On 20 December, 1777, Morocco became the first country to recognise the United States as an independent nation. The Moroccan-American Treaty of Friendship, formalised in 1786, is the longest unbroken treaty relationship in U.S. history, and Tangier is home to the oldest U.S. diplomatic property in the world.
Five Power Defence Arrangements, signed in 1971 to protect the Malaysian Peninsula, or Singapore from external or foreign aggression.
See also
References
- Liska, George. Alliances and the Third World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968.
- Pressman, Jeremy. Warring Friends: Alliance Restraint in International Politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008.
- Snyder, Glenn H. Alliance Politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.
- Walt, Stephen. The Origins of Alliances. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
- Weitsman, Patricia. Dangerous Alliances. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2004.