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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.

Historic military alliances

Medic Wars
- Hellenic League - Athens, Lacedemonia, Macedon, others
Peloponnesian War
- League of Delos - Athens, Chios, Samos, Lesbos, others
- Peloponnesian League - Lacedemonia, Corinth, Elis, others
Wars of Scottish Independence
- Auld Alliance - Scotland, Norway, France
Italian Wars
- League of Cambrai - The Papal States, France, Aragon, Holy Roman Empire
- Catholic League (Italian) - The Papal States, Venice, England, Aragon, Holy Roman Empire
Schmalkaldic War
- Schmalkaldic League - German Protestant States
Anglo-Portuguese Alliance - England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal, since 1373
Luso-Islamic War
- Ethio-Portuguese Treaties - Portugal, Ethiopia
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 - The Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Austria, other German states
War of the Spanish Succession
- The Quadruple Alliance of 1718
Napoleonic Wars
- The Quadruple Alliance of 1814/15
- First through Seventh Coalitions
The Quadruple Alliance of 1834
Anglo-Japanese Alliance - United Kingdom and Japan
World War I
- the Entente and the Allies - United Kingdom, France, Serbia, New Zealand, Australia, Russia (to 1917), Romania (from 1916), United States (from 1917)
- the Central Powers - Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
World War II
- the Axis - Germany, Japan, Italy,and many others.
- the Allies - United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, France, United States, Soviet Union, 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, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania
- 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)

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

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 Economic Community of Central African States.

Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Pact) - Most of the countries of the Americas.

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.

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

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) - China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan.Further Information

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