Talk:Military alliance
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[edit] US-led occupation of Iraq
I question the meaningfulness of listing the anti-Iraq coalition as a military alliance on this page. It's no way comparable with the alliances listed for the 20th century, and the allied have very little at stake, with the exception of the US, of course, and very limited commitments, again with the exception of the US.
/Tuomas 00:15, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)
[edit] League of Nations and the UN
I don't think they can be called Military alliances, not all of the members are allied in a military way, if allied at all.
They're just organizations.
Don't know about the League of Nations, but the U.N. should definetly be classed as military, because you have all the resoulutions, and almost all the nations in the U.N. contribute troops to peacekeeping missions.--Peidu 15:22, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
The League of Nations is debatable - its articles considered an attack on one to be an attack on all member states, but there was no enforcement mechanism nor any obligation to come to the defense of or even to aid the attacked party. The United Nations has no trappings of alliance, any alliance stemming from UN resolutions are ad hoc and while soldiers may be wearing UN uniforms, they are generally led by member nations, and member nations may choose whether to participate or not. Therefore it is more a coalition given UN sanction rather than a UN alliance.
So what do we do? should we change it?
League of Nations should probably be removed. It doesn't really fit the definition of military alliance well. Without a doubt, United Nations should be removed. I find a few of the other "military alliances" to be questionable as well. For example, the SCO may involve military cooperation, but it is neither defensive nor offensive and there are no common military units either, like under ECOMOG or NATO. - YGagarin 19:58, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
I remember seeing another military alliance of the Cold War era posted here (Eastern Pact) and it has since been deleted ...why?
MiguelNS
[edit] Shanghai Cooperation Organization
isn't a military alliance,no agreement involving war were signed.--Ksyrie 16:40, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
