In this Book
- Military Attache
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- pp. ix-xiv
- Part I. Historical Outline
- 1. FORERUNNERS AND BEGINNINGS
- pp. 3-14
- 2. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- pp. 15-36
- 3. THE FIRST WORLD WAR
- pp. 37-48
- 4. BETWEEN THE WARS
- pp. 49-74
- 5. THE SECOND WORLD WAR
- pp. 75-92
- 6. AFTER 1945
- pp. 93-109
- 7. THE SERVICE ATTACHE AND "SOCIETY"
- pp. 110-127
- 8. THE SERVICE ATTACHEAS POLITICO
- pp. 128-175
- 9. ATTACHE INTO AMBASSADOR
- pp. 176-186
- Part II. Fields of Activity for Attachés
- 10. THE ATTACHE AS OBSERVER
- pp. 189-210
- 11. SPYING ATTACHES AND DIPLOMACY
- pp. 211-241
- 12. ATTACHES AND WAR ECONOMY
- pp. 242-257
- 13. OBSERVERS OF BATTLE
- pp. 258-272
- 14. ATTACHES AND THELIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS
- pp. 273-278
- 15. ATTACHES IN THE SERVICEOF AUTOCRACY
- pp. 279-319
- 16. MISSION CHIEFS ANDSERVICE ATTACHES
- pp. 320-354
- 17. SERVICE ATTACHES ANDTHE ALLIANCES
- pp. 355-390
- 18. SURVIVAL OF THESERVICE ATTACHE?
- pp. 391-396
- Bibliography
- pp. 397-400