Editing Coalition (section)

=== Military ===
{{Seealso|military alliance}}
Military coalitions can be built and united under a singular power by multiple states and governments. They are fluid in terms of membership{{snd}}not only does a country not have to have been a traditional ally to join a coalition, but nations can join, vary their contributions and caveats, withdraw, and be replaced by new members as the situation changes or national agendas change.<ref name=":1" /> The expansion of assets accessible to member nations to perform military operations is a crucial attribute of coalitions. In many ways, coalition warfare serves to make the crafting of a peace more difficult than winning the war itself.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Military Science|last=Hardy|first=Travis|publisher=SAGE Reference|year=2013|isbn=978-1-78402-464-2|editor-last=Piehler|editor-first=Kurt|location=Thousand Oaks, CA}}</ref> An example of such a coalition happened after World War I during the 1919 [[Versailles Peace Conference]], when the Allied powers attempted to reach a peace agreement.

Examples of military coalitions include the [[Coalition of the Gulf War]], when George H. W. Bush ended Saddam Hussein's aggression in the Middle East by enlisting and leading a military coalition in the 1991 Gulf War's [[Operation Desert Storm]]<ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopaedia Judaica|last1=Atkin|first1=Maurice|last2=Gartner|first2=Lloyd|last3=Geldman |first3=Arden|last4=Kenen|first4=Isaiah|last5=Rader Marcus|first5=Jacob|last6=Temkin|first6=Sefton|publisher=Macmillan Reference|year=2007|isbn=978-0-02-865928-2|editor-last=Berenbaum|editor-first=Michael|location=Detroit, Michigan, USA.|editor-last2=Skolnik|editor-first2=Fred}}</ref> as well as his son George W. Bush's efforts in the [[Coalition of the willing (Iraq War)|Coalition of the Willing]], a phrase employed during the 2003 campaign for the [[Iraq War|war in Iraq]] led by the US and its allies. A contemporary example is the United Nations [[Coalition intervention in Libya|coalition]] that intervened in the [[2011 Libyan civil war|2011 Libyan Civil War]] against [[Muammar Gaddafi]]. For coalitions to be effective in principle or in action, participating nations have tended to require a single overpowering threat{{Snd}}perhaps to freedom or a way of life or a crucial national interest{{Snd}}or the presence of a single despotic figure or regime whose continued existence is considered not only abhorrent to the generality of nations but also destabilizing to the region or world order.<ref name=":1" />