Ronald Harvey Spector (born January 17, 1943) is an American military historian.
[2] 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 currently is serving on the faculty of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.[5] In 2012, Spector was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize, for his breadth of contributions to the field of military history.
[6][7][8] 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.