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robert a. vitas

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 .
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. sarkesian .
