Occupation Historian, writer Role Historian Name Ronald Spector | Subject Military history Nationality American | |
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Books Eagle Against the Sun: The, In the Ruins of Empire: T, At War at Sea: Sailors a, After Tet, Advice and Support: The Early |
Ronald H. Spector is a military historian, who contributes to scholarly journals and also teaches history. He is currently a Professor at the George Washington University.
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Military career
He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served in the Vietnam War, reaching to the rank of Major by 1984. He was a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military history and taught at the University of Alabama. He was tasked to prepare a study of the Grenada operation.
Education
He graduated from Johns Hopkins University, and later gained a Ph.D from Yale University.
Academic career
Spector was a Senior Fulbright scholar in India from 1977 to 1978. He has taught at the National War College, the University of Alabama, and the U.S. Army War College. He currently is serving on the faculty of The George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Publications
Awards
Spector was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize, for his breadth of contributions to the field of military history. His book Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan was the 1986 winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History.