military attaché
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of military attaché
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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China posted a military attaché to the country for the first time in 2024.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2025
The German government made that offer also to the Israeli military attaché in Berlin, Boris Pistorius told reporters on Wednesday.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2023
Morgan said Smith sent a letter containing "highly sensitive information about the British embassy and those who worked within it" to General Major Sergey Chukhrov, the Russian military attaché to Berlin, in November 2020.
From Reuters • Feb. 13, 2023
Gen. James Lawton Collins, who had been an aide to John J. Pershing, the general of the armies, in Mexico and World War I, was the military attaché at the United States Embassy.
From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2021
For all his threats, he knew enough of the Secret Service department in the Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin to know that in a fight against a Prussian military attaché he would stand but a poor chance.
From Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure by Gilson, Charles
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