However, such activities, though useful, do not require a formal military alliance among the western powers.
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The visit also marked the 60th anniversary of the Anzus military alliance between the two nations.
Unchanged since the revolution, U.S. aid policy toward Egypt still makes the military alliance its priority.
Perhaps most importantly, it wants to bring about a subtle change in its military alliance with America.
It is, by the way, the most successful and powerful military alliance in the history of the world.
When America was hunting for a military alliance to force Iraq out of Kuwait, Egypt's president joined without hesitation.
NATO, which having outlived the cold war has shown that it is more than the traditional one-purpose military alliance.
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For the last 60 years we have maintained a strong political, military alliance.
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At Turkey's request, the NATO military alliance deployed several Patriot missile batteries to protect Turkish border cities from the threat of Syrian missile attacks.
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The visit by Ms Park, South Korea's first female president, came as the US and South Korea mark 60 years of their military alliance.
The report also criticizes the NATO mission in Afghanistan, saying the lack of a unified vision and strategy is jeopardizing the military alliance's reputation.
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It was Turkey's military alliance with Israel that helped to prompt an intimidated Syria to kick out the PKK's leader, Abdullah Ocalan, in 1998.
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Beyond that, distinctions between -- NATO is obviously a military alliance and that is a fit place for discussing the military options that we have.
The lack of a unified vision and strategy is jeopardizing the military alliance's reputation, a House of Commons committee said in a report released Sunday.
Just 11 weeks into the operation - involving the mightiest military alliance in history - the allies revealed they were beginning to run short of munitions.
This proposed legislation offers preferential treatment to nations that remain part of a hostile military alliance and that participate actively in intelligence operations against the United States and its allies.
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She's discussing the need for more troops and she's also talking about possibly adding more members to the military alliance, which is a move that has likely to make Russia unhappy.
Rwanda wants them eased: co-operation between militant Hutu groups in Rwanda and Burundi has forced the two governments into a sort of military alliance even though politically they are far apart.
We also reaffirmed the importance of our military alliance.
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Turkish nationalists and generals expressed concern that this might prevent Turkey, a member of NATO, blocking Cyprus, which remains divided into ethic Greek and ethnic Turkish republics, from joining the military alliance.
Engaging a unified Germany squarely in the camp of democratic, free market nations joined together -- and armed -- in a defensive military alliance is the best guarantee available of long-term stability.
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Several days later, at a press conference with Karzai, the newly appointed secretary general of the NATO military alliance, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, called for NATO countries to contribute more troops to support the Afghan government.
In Madrid, he discussed the four Aegis ships that will this year be deployed to Rota, a US naval base on the southern coast of Spain, as a sign of the strong military alliance between the two countries.
Mr Salmond, who has met with former US Secretary of State Colin Powell during his visit, said he did not believe his party's stance on nuclear weapons would be a problem when it came to Scotland's membership of the military alliance, and pointed out that 25 of the 28 members of Nato were non-nuclear.
Turkey, which has one of the largest military forces in the alliance, has declined to join the coalition trying to restore stability in post-war Iraq.
And if, as might well happen, Mr Abhisit's government lost an election to proxies for Mr Thaksin, the same alliance of military and civilian elites that toppled him in 2006 and his allies in 2008 might again reject the popular verdict.
NATO's progress was offered by the outgoing chairman of the alliance's Military Committee, General Klaus Naumann, a German, on May 4th.
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The current Sudanese government consists of an alliance between the military and the National Congress Party (NCP) which promotes an Islamist platform.
There is no doubt that rich and militarily capable Europeans ought to be shouldering more of the alliance's military burdens, both in Europe and beyond.
Stretch it too far, by making promises that can't or won't be kept or by bringing in countries of doubtful military value, and the alliance will unravel.
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