name: Ronald H. Spector
birth_date: 1943-01-17 00:00:00
genres: Military History, Nonfiction
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about: Professor Spector received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins and his MA and Ph.D. from Yale.He has served in various government positions and on active duty in the Marine Corps from 1967-1969 and 1983-1984, and was the first civilian to become Director of Naval History and the head of the Naval Historical Center. He has served on the faculties of LSU, Alabama and Princeton and has been a senior Fulbright lecturer in India and Israel. In 1995-1996 he was Distinguished Visiting Professor of Strategy at the National War College and was the Distinguished Guest Professor at Keio University, Tokyo in 2000.