The Gulf-war alliance, which endured in defiance of the predictions of many doubters, no longer exists (see article).
The US has some 28, 000 troops stationed in South Korea under a post-Korean War security alliance.
Already, it looks likely that alliance war-games in both Albania and Macedonia will be brought forward and expanded.
In 1341, in the Hundred Years War, an alliance was signed between Louis IV, Roman Emperor, and Philip VI of France at Vincennes.
What brought Europe to war was not the great alliance blocks, nor the Europe-wide arms race (one aspect of the story that is curiously neglected here), but the last gasp of the old Eastern Question, which had plagued European diplomacy for a century.
Our alliance, forged in war, is now a cornerstone of peace, security and prosperity for all of Northeast Asia.
Rayner said NATO forces were "seeking guidance" on apprehending suspected war criminals after criticism that the alliance had allowed Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic -- indicted twice by the tribunal -- to move freely around the country.
Speaking earlier, NATO Secretary-General George Robertson said the alliance had to shelve Cold War reflexes and be prepared to face a new war on global terrorism.
Japan was able to turn its back on Asia for most of the post-war period because of a strong security alliance with America that has now been going for 50 years.
Saddam, who faced a U.S.-led alliance in the 1991 Gulf War following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, said he doubted that Washington would respond violently if the attackers were from a Western country.
As the war in Kosovo grinds on, the alliance's need for a land bridge from Germany through the Czech Republic and Slovakia and on to Hungary has enhanced the country's strategic importance.
At their first rally on Saturday, Professor Lipumba of the CUF-Chadema alliance promised to "wage an endless war against corruption".
Some see it as a mission that will either carve out a new post-cold war role for the organisation or, if the alliance stumbles, underline its lack of purpose.
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Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup, was not on the ballot, but the poll was widely seen as a referendum on his eight-year rule - including his alliance with the United States in the war on terrorist groups based in Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan.
When I fought in the Gulf War, the unit I was apart of had the mission to destroy the Iraqi scuds that were being fired into Israel in an attempt by Saddam Hussein to get an Israeli response, with the side effect of breaking up the Muslim alliance that we had during the Gulf War.
Earlier this month the outgoing commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan, Gen John Allen, insisted the alliance is on the road to winning the war.
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In retrospect, the Libyan war may have been in several ways a turning point for the alliance.
Despite the almost permanent state of war between the Wazirs and the Mehsud, these commanders forged an alliance with Baitullah Mehsud last February.
Admittedly, the trip was partly to deal with the urgent problems of war, not the long-term health of the two countries' alliance.
The US-Nato alliance has had to deploy 150, 000 troops and the war has spawned the Pakistani Taliban, which the Pakistani army did not initially see as a danger but now sees as a major threat.
So as far as the Middle East and Central Asia are concerned, a primary lesson of the Cold War relates to the relative weight the US can securely place in its alliance with Israel on the one hand, and its alliance with the Saudis on the other.
NATO, which having outlived the cold war has shown that it is more than the traditional one-purpose military alliance.
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He compared its threats to those of the Triple Alliance of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, which fought a genocidal war against Paraguay in the 1860s.
Anyways, living room co-op on consoles is fun, and fond memories of the Dark Alliance games give me nostalgic barrels of hope for Realms of Ancient War.
When that war was won, and as another raged in Korea, our countries forged a new alliance.
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Mrs Fernandez Meijide, whom many fancy as the alliance's presidential candidate for 1999, lost a son during the dirty war and has never learned his fate.
UN's slowness to assemble a police force has left the Atlantic alliance with its hands full as the sole keeper of order in the former war zone.
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