C-5s have also been used to deliver support and reinforce various US allies over the years.

He added it would already be difficult to respond to a regional conflict without the help of US allies.

Canada has not obliged either: does that make it a bad US ally?

Kerry was preferred by most US allies, according to this poll.

Whatever he does, U.S. allies want him above all to keep a firm grip on that office.

Its policy was, and still is, to use nuclear arms in the event of a conventional attack on U.S. allies.

He was the only major U.S. ally to express these views, however.

Japan later became a U.S. ally with a powerful economy based on consumer goods and trade.

And U.S. allies will want to do some budget-trimming of their own.

Since 2001, Ethiopia has sought to position itself as a key US ally in the global war on terror.