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A military attaché is a military
Military

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 expert
Expert

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 who is attached to a diplomatic mission
Diplomatic mission

A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one state or an international inter-governmental organization present in another state to represent the sending state/organization in the receiving state....
 (an attaché
Attaché

Attach? is a French term in diplomacy referring to a person who is assigned to the administrative staff of a higher placed person or another service or agency....
). This post is normally filled by a high-ranking military officer
Officer (armed forces)

An officer is a member of an Armed forces who holds a position of authority.Commissioned officers derive authority directly from a sovereignty power and, as such, hold a Letters patent charging them with the duties and responsibilities of a specific office or position....
.

In general, a military attaché serves on the diplomatic staff of an embassy or consulate. The functions of a military attaché are illustrated by the American military attachés in Japan during the war years. A series of military officers had been assigned to the American diplomatic mission in Tokyo since 1901 when the U.S.






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A military attaché is a military
Military

A military is an organization authorized by its nation to use force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or Threat of force ....
 expert
Expert

An "expert" is someone widely recognized as a reliabilism source of wikt:technique or skill whose faculty for judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely is accorded authority and status by their Peer groups or the public in a specific well distinguished domain....
 who is attached to a diplomatic mission
Diplomatic mission

A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one state or an international inter-governmental organization present in another state to represent the sending state/organization in the receiving state....
 (an attaché
Attaché

Attach? is a French term in diplomacy referring to a person who is assigned to the administrative staff of a higher placed person or another service or agency....
). This post is normally filled by a high-ranking military officer
Officer (armed forces)

An officer is a member of an Armed forces who holds a position of authority.Commissioned officers derive authority directly from a sovereignty power and, as such, hold a Letters patent charging them with the duties and responsibilities of a specific office or position....
.

In general, a military attaché serves on the diplomatic staff of an embassy or consulate. The functions of a military attaché are illustrated by the American military attachés in Japan during the war years. A series of military officers had been assigned to the American diplomatic mission in Tokyo since 1901 when the U.S. and Japan were co-operating closely in response to the Boxer Rebellion in China. The military attaché advised the United States Ambassador to Japan
United States Ambassador to Japan

The United States Ambassador to Japan is the Ambassador from the United States to Japan. Since the Convention of Kanagawa by Commodore Matthew C....
 on military matters, acted as a liaison between United States Army
United States Army

The United States Army is the branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for Army operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S....
 and the Imperial General Headquarters
Imperial General Headquarters

The as part of the Supreme War Council was established in 1893 to coordinate efforts between the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy during wartime....
, and gathered and disseminated intelligence. The military attaché's office in Tokyo usually had two assistants and a number of "language officers" who were assigned specifically to learn Japanese whilst attached to Imperial Japanese Army
Imperial Japanese Army

The Imperial Japanese Army , or literally Army of Empire of Greater Japan was the official ground based armed force of Imperial Japan from 1867 to 1945....
 regiments as observers. These "language officers" translated training and technical manuals and reported on conditions in Japanese military units.

The original connotation was that an attaché was an officer (employee) of another service 'attached to,' for example, an Embassy or Consulate. Thus, an attaché who holds a military commission would retain that commission despite being assigned to serve in an Embassy; but from time to time, opportunities sometimes arose for service in the field with military or naval forces of another nation.

During the Russo-Japanese War
Russo-Japanese War

The Russo-Japanese War or the Manchurian Campaign in some English sources, was a conflict that grew out of the rival imperialism ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over Manchuria and Korea....
 (1904-1905), military and naval attachés from many Western military organizations served as military or naval observers with the land and naval forces of Russia and Japan. The United States Army detailed eight officers to serve military attachés with opposing forces in the field; and all served from the start of hostilities in 1904 through the signing of the peace protocols in September 1905. After the war, the reports of British officers attached to the Japanese forces in the field were combined and published in four volumes. During this conflict, some attachés served primarily in Manchuria, and others served primarily in Tokyo. Some, like Italian naval officer Ernesto Burzagli
Ernesto Burzagli

Ernesto Burzagli Order of the Bath was an prominent figure in the early 20th century Kingdom of Italy . During a lifetime career in the Italian navy, he rose to the rank of admiral and Chief of the Staff of the Navy....
 saw service both at sea and in Tokyo.

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