While researching for my practice country; Luxembourg, in class last week I noticed on the Luxembourg Armies Wikipedia that the nation had provided military, financial and humanitarian support to Albania in the recent years. While I could not find any direct proof of this there is plenty of circumstantial evidence. Luxembourg is a framework member of the Eurocorps; a Corps of five countries armies within the EU. The Eurocorps has provided aid in response to the crisis that occurred in Albania, Yugoslavia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo in the 1990s and early 2000s.
I also found some information on Albania's military history to expound on what others have said.
Following the purges conducted by the Communist government of Albania from 1960 to 1990; the professional military corps of the Albania was non-existent and the effectiveness of its forces was almost non-existent. In 1997 the government that followed the fall of the Communist regime attempted to use the military to crush civilian rioting. The failure of the military to do so caused its complete collapse.
This miss use of the Albanian military may have engendered a similar fear of military power that the Founding Fathers had and is definitely a strand of similarity between the US and Albania.
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