TY - BOOK AU - BANERJEE Kiran AU - MACKAY Joseph TI - Communities of practise, impression management, and great power status: military observers in the Russo-Japanese War PY - 2020/// KW - MILITARY KW - RUSSO-JAPANESE KW - GREAT POWER KW - STATUS N2 - This article question why do states exchange attachés, permitting uniformed foreigners to gather intelligence on their territory and during their wars? By using case study, the article is focusing on the individuals who developed the role by living it, showing how they both innovated a distinct military practice and established institutional legitimacy for attachés UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/eis.2020.11 ER -