Military Attache / / Alfred Vagts.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Vagts, Alfred,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1967
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 2004
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (422 p.)

This is both a history of the service attaché, beginning with the Napoleonic era, and a discussion of his changing role, past and present. Professor Vagts shows the military adviser temporarily joined to the diplomatic corps as a person often divided in his loyalties to diplomatic officials and to military leaders. Affected by increasing bureaucratic specialization, he sometimes became a "twilight" figure engaged in political activity and even espionage. Professor Vagts' numerous works on the history of militarism and the military, in both German and English, and his research in the chancelleries of Europe have given him perspective for this book.Originally published in 1967.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Historical Outline -- 1. Forerunners and Beginnings -- 2. The Nineteenth Century -- 3. The First World War -- 4. Between the Wars -- 5. The Second World War -- 6. After 1945 -- 7. The Service Attaché and "Society" -- 8. The Service Attaché as Politico -- 9. Attaché into Ambassador -- Part II. Fields of Activity for Attachés -- 10. The Attaché as Observer -- 11. Spying Attachés and Diplomacy -- 12. Attachés and War Economy -- 13. Observers of Battle -- 14. Attachés and the Limitation of Armaments -- 15. Attachés in the Service of Autocracy -- 16. Mission Chiefs and Service Attachés -- 17. Service Attachés and the Alliances -- 18. Survival of the Service Attaché? -- Bibliography -- Index