Twentieth century witnessed the rise and fall of many great power. With the
start of that century, nations fought and won battles individually to stretch
their empires and economics. Within the same century, when the sizes of a few
empires rose to mythical proportion, others vanished from the map. It was during
the same twentieth century, that the alliance building becomes a religion. Both
World Wars and the entire Cold War Period were dominated by the principle of
'building and maintaining alliances'. Two countries, the United States and the
United Kingdom, understood the art of alliance building more than any other
nation. From the last decades of