Question

What are the objectives of military alliances? Give an example of a functioning military alliance with its specific objectives.

Answer 1

The objectives of military alliances:

1. is to protect themselves against threats from other countries. However, states have also entered into alliances to improves ties with a particular nation or to manage conflict with a particular nation

2. to increase their effective power relative to another country or alliance.

3. allainces are formed to increase their effective power relative to another alliance

Military alliance between India and Russia, Russia is major defence ally of India. The objective of the alliance is:

1. to defence procurements, transfer of dual-use technologies, research and development, and India’s defence industrialisation.

2. Both the nations want to strengthen their forces to respond to disaster situation.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

• The objectives are important to maintain a balance of power and defend or deter an attack.
• Military alliances are also formed to strengthen a country’s potential against another state.
• In a military alliance, an attack on one country is considered an attack on the collective group that forms the alliance.
• An example of a functioning military alliance would be NATO that was made during Cold War.
• The NATO was initially formed to deter the attack by the Soviet.