Current military alliances in the world

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A military alliance is an agreement between countries with interesting national security. Nations in a military alliance consent to active participation and assistance to protect others in the alliance in the circumstance of an emergency. If a country is attacked, associates of the alliance are often obligated to come to their defense nonetheless of whether they are attacked presently.

There have been approximately 538 military alliance treaties from 1815 to 2003.

Global Conflict Alliance Map

Today the best-known alliance is NATO. NATO was founded as an anti-communist military alliance in 1949.

NATO has 31 members: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom, United States, Greece, Turkey, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro.

As a counterweight to NATO, an alliance of communist countries that signed the Warsaw Pact emerged. Warsaw Pact was a collaborative defense treaty signed in Warsaw (Poland) between the USSR and seven other socialist Central and Eastern European countries during the Cold War. A lot has changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The rise and fall of communism (1917 – 2017)

After the collapse of the Eastern bloc and the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact lost force and was replaced by The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), signed only by some countries of the former Soviet Union.

The map below illustrates the current situation of military alliances in Europe.

Map of the European’s alliances today