What is Military alliance?
{{nosources|date=August 2018}} A '''military alliance''' is an [[alliance]] that is made with the express purpose of [[military]] matters and promises the [[defense (military)|defense]] of all of its members. == Historic military alliances == *[[Greco-Persian Wars|Medic Wars]] **Hellenic League - [[Athens]], [[Sparta|Lacedemonia]], [[Macedon]], others *[[Peloponnesian War]] **[[League of Delos]] - [[Athens]], [[Chios]], [[Samos Island|Samos]], [[Lesbos]], others **[[Peloponnesian League]] - [[Sparta|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]] - [[Portuguese Empire|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]] **[[Quadruple Alliance|The Quadruple Alliance of 1718]] *[[Napoleonic Wars]] ** [[Quadruple Alliance|The Quadruple Alliance of 1814/15]] ** First through Seventh Coalitions *[[Quadruple Alliance|The Quadruple Alliance of 1834]] *[[Anglo-Japanese Alliance]] - [[United Kingdom]] and [[Japan]] * [[World War I]] **[[Triple Entente|the Entente]] and the [[Allies of World War I|Allies]] - [[United Kingdom]], [[France]], [[Serbia]], [[New Zealand]], [[Australia]], [[Russia]] (to 1917), [[Romania]] (from 1916), [[United States]] (