Edward John Drea (born 24 February 1944) is an American military historian.
He attended local grammar and high schools, and then entered Canisius College in Buffalo.
He was posted to the headquarters of the Fifth Air Force at Fuchū in Japan, arriving on 20 January 1968, where he monitored communications from communist countries.
[3] He joined the Combat Studies Institute of the Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1975, and became the head of the Research and Analysis Department at the US Army Center for Military History in Washington, D.C.
[2] In 2003, he received the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for lifetime achievement from the Society for Military History.