Robert A. Vitas is a scholar of civil-military relations, national security strategy, and Lithuania studies.

He was an army officer in the U.S. Army Reserve and a visiting scholar at Northwestern University.

He is currently the executive director of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society.

He is also the chairman of the Lithuanian Research and Studies Center.

[1] He received his PhD from Loyola University Chicago and has produced scholarship with other notable civil-military relations scholars such as John Allen Williams and Sam C.