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List of military attachés in World War I

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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 US and Japan were co-operating closely in response to the Boxer Rebellion in China. The military attaché advised the United States Ambassador to Japan on military matters, acted as a liaison between US Army and the Imperial General Headquarters, 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 Japanese Imperial Army regiments as observers. These "language officers" translated training and technical manuals and reported on conditions in Japanese military units.[1]

Selected military attachés serving with Entente powers

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Russia

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France

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United Kingdom

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United States

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  • Lieutenant Colonel Karl F. Baldwin, Japan (1917–1919).[7]
  • Lieutenant Colonel Halsey E. Yates, Romania (1916-1920).[citation needed]
  • Lieutenant Colonel James A. Ruggles, Russia (1918).[8]

Japan

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Belgium

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Selected military attachés serving with Central powers

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Germany

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Ottoman Empire

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London: US Military Intelligence Reports, Japan, Context
  2. ^ Savliev, Igor; Pestushko, Yuri S. (2001). "Dangerous Rapprochement Russia and Japan in the First World War, 1914-1916". Acta Salvica Iaponica. 18 (19–41): 26n33 – via Central and Eastern European Online Library.
  3. ^ "Mitsumasa Yonai". WW2DB. WWII Database.
  4. ^ Venzon, Anne Cipriano; Miles, Paul L.; Publishing, Garland (1995). The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-8240-7055-7.
  5. ^ a b Barth, Bjarne Keyser, ed. (1930). "Dahl, A. D.". Norges militære embedsmenn 1929 (in Norwegian). Oslo: A. M. Hanche. p. 103.
  6. ^ a b Japan Center for Asian Historical Records: "US-Japan War Talks," key figures.
  7. ^ Stringer, p. 435.
  8. ^ "Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Russia, Volume I - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov.
  9. ^ a b c Stringer, p. 466.
  10. ^ Venzon, p. 318.

References

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Further reading

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  • Luckhart, Tim. "War Correspondents". encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net. International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1).