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States may also employ other alliance tactics, such as buck-passing and chain-ganging.
Chain-ganging occurs when a state sees its own security tied to the security of its alliance partner.
A key example of this was the chain-ganging between states prior to World War I, dragging the entire European continent to war over a dispute between the relatively major power of Austria-Hungary and the minor power of Serbia.