David Glantz David M . Glantz ( born 11 January 1942 in Port Chester , New York ) is an American military historian and the editor of the " Journal of Slavic Military Studies " . Glantz received degrees in history from the Virginia Military Institute and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , and is a graduate of the U . S . Army Command and General Staff College , Defense Language Institute , Institute for Russian and Eastern European Studies , and U . S . Army War College . He entered active service with the United States Army in 1963 . Military service . He began his military career in 1963 as a field artillery officer from 1965 to 1969 . He served in various assignments in the United States , and in Vietnam during the Vietnam War with the II Field Force Fire Support Coordination Element ( FSCE ) at the " Plantation " in Long Binh . Teaching career . After teaching history at the United States Military Academy from 1969 through 1973 , he completed the army ’ s Soviet foreign area specialist program and became chief of Estimates in US Army Europe ’ s Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence ( USAREUR ODCSI ) from 1977 to 1979 . Upon his return to the United States in 1979 , he became chief of research at the Army ’ s newly formed Combat Studies Institute ( CSI ) at Fort Leavenworth , Kansas , from 1979 to 1983 and then Director of Soviet Army Operations at the Center for Land Warfare , U . S . Army War College in Carlisle , Pennsylvania , from 1983 to 1986 . While at the College , Col . Glantz was instrumental in conducting the annual " Art of War " symposia which produced the best analysis of the conduct of operations on the Eastern Front during the Second World War in English to date . The symposia included attendance of a number of former German participants in the operations , and resulted in publication of the seminal transcripts of proceedings . Returning to Fort Leavenworth in 1986 , he helped found and later directed the U . S . Army ’ s Soviet ( later Foreign ) Military Studies Office ( FMSO ) , where he remained until his retirement in 1993 with the rank of Colonel . Col . David M . Glantz , was a Mark W . Clark visiting professor of History at The Citadel , The Military College of South Carolina . http : / / www . citadel . edu / root / new _ faculty08 Activity after retirement . In 1993 , while at FMSO , he established " The Journal of Slavic Military Studies " , a scholarly journal for which he still serves as chief editor , that covers military affairs in the states of Central and Eastern Europe as well as the former Soviet Union . A member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences , he has written or co - authored more than twenty commercially published books , over sixty self - published studies and atlases , and over one hundred articles dealing with the history of the Red ( Soviet ) Army , Soviet military strategy , operational art , and tactics , Soviet airborne operations , intelligence , and deception , and other topics related to World War II . In recognition of his work , he has received several awards , including the Society for Military History ' s prestigious Samuel Eliot Morison Prize for his contributions to the study of military history . Glantz is known as a military historian of the Soviet role in World War II . He is perhaps most associated with the thesis that World War II Soviet military history has been prejudiced in the West by its over - reliance on German oral and printed sources , without being balanced by a similar examination of Soviet source material ; a more complete version of this thesis can be found in his paper " The Failures of Historiography : Forgotten Battles of the German - Soviet War ( 1941 - 1945 ) . " Glantz has also , however , met with some criticism for his stylistic choices , such as inventing specific thoughts and feelings of historical figures without reference to documented sources . Glantz is also known as an opponent of Viktor Suvorov ' s thesis , which he endeavored to rebut with the book " Stumbling Colossus . " He lives with his wife Mary Ann Glantz in Carlisle , Pennsylvania . The Glantzes ' daughter Mary E . Glantz , also a historian , has written " FDR And The Soviet Union : The President ' s Battles Over Foreign Policy " ( ISBN 070061365X ) .