Ronald Harvey Spector (born January 17, 1943) is a military historian who contributes to scholarly journals and teaches history as a professor at George Washington University.[1]
Ronald Harvey Spector | |
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Born | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | January 17, 1943
Occupation | Historian, writer |
Nationality | American |
Subject | Military history |
He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served in the Vietnam War, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the reserves. 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.
He graduated from Johns Hopkins University, and later gained a Ph.D from Yale University.
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.[2]
Spector was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize, for his breadth of contributions to the field of military history.[3][4] 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.[2]