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A military attaché or defence attaché (DA), [1] sometimes known as a "military diplomat", [2] is an official responsible for military matters within a diplomatic mission, typically an embassy. [3] They are usually high-ranking members of the armed forces who retain their commission while being accorded full diplomatic status and immunity .
An attaché is normally an official, who serves either as a diplomat or as a member of the support staff, under the authority of an ambassador or other head of a diplomatic mission, mostly in intergovernmental organizations or international non-governmental organisations or agencies. Attachés monitor various issues related to their area of ...
Diplomatic rank is a system of professional and social rank used in the world of diplomacy and international relations.A diplomat's rank determines many ceremonial details, such as the order of precedence at official processions, table seatings at state dinners, the person to whom diplomatic credentials should be presented, and the title by which the diplomat should be addressed.
1936: 464 military and naval attachés abroad. 1945: Military attachés in 45 capitals; 1948: 258 Army and Air Force officers on attaché duty in 59 countries and 120 naval officers in 43 countries. 1949: 2,049 personnel on attaché duty; a Senior Attaché was designated for each capital. 1950: Attachés were cut by 35%, and 36 posts were ...
Lucile Atcherson Curtis was the first woman in what became the U.S. Foreign Service. [13] Specifically, she was the first woman appointed as a United States Diplomatic Officer or Consular Officer, in 1923 (the U.S. did not establish the unified Foreign Service until 1924, at which time diplomatic and consular Officers became Foreign Service officers).
Turkey offered to rebuild Syria's demolished military. It's an opening to grow its influence with its southern neighbor and counter Iran. "Turkey will likely try to fill Russia's role," a Middle ...
Diplomats can be contrasted with consuls who help businesspeople, and military attachés. They represent not the foreign ministry but other branches of their government, but lack the diplomat's role in dealing with foreign policy at the highest level. [14]
Defence diplomacy as an organizing concept for defence-related international activity has its origin in post-Cold War reappraisals of Western defence establishments, led by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence, and was a principle “used to help the West come to terms with the new international security environment.” [2] While the term originated in the West, the conduct of defence ...