Military Attache / / Alfred Vagts.

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 m...

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