Steven Joseph Zaloga (born February 1, 1952) is an American author and defense consultant.

He received a bachelor's degree cum laude at Union College and a master's degree at Columbia University, both in history.

He has published many books dealing with modern military technology, and especially Soviet and CIS tanks and armoured warfare.

[2][3] He is also a noted scale armor modeler and is a host/moderator of the World War II Allied Discussion group at Missing-Lynx.com, a modelling website.

He is a member of the Armor Modeling and Preservation Society.