Steven J. Zaloga is an American historian

Historian

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, defense consultant, and a well-known author on military technology

Military technology

Military technology is the collection of equipment, vehicles, structures and communication systems that are designed for use in warfare. It comprises the kinds of technology that are distinctly military in nature and not civilian in application, usually because they are impractical in civilian...

. He received a bachelors degree cum laude in history from Union College and a masters degree from Columbia University

Columbia University

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He has published many books dealing with modern military technology, and especially Soviet and CIS

Commonwealth of Independent States

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 tanks and armoured warfare. He is a senior analyst at the Teal Group.

He is also a noted scale armor modeler

Model military vehicle

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 and is a moderator of the World War II Allied Discussion group at MissingLynx.com, a modelling website. He is a frequent contributor to the UK-based modeling magazine Military Modelling. He is a member of the Armor Modeling and Preservation Society

Armor Modeling and Preservation Society

The Armor Modeling and Preservation Society is a social club with the common interest of modeling miniature armored fighting vehicles, military model figures, ordnance, dioramas, and related equipment...

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Works

• M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank 1982-92 (1993) ISBN 9781855322837
• Modern American Armor: Combat Vehicles of the United States Army Today (1982) ISBN 0-85368-248-8
• Modern Soviet Armor: Combat Vehicles of the USSR and Warsaw Pact Today (1980) ISBN 0-13-597856-4
• Polish Army, 1939-1945, Osprey Publishing, 1982, ISBN 0-85045-417-4,
• T-54 and T-55 Main Battle Tanks 1944-2004 (2004) ISBN 1-84176-792-1
• T-72 Main Battle Tank 1974-93 (1993) ISBN 1-85532-338-9
• The Kremlin's Nuclear Sword: The Rise and Fall of Russia's Strategic Nuclear Forces, 1945-2000,Random House, 2002 ISBN 1588340074
• Scud Ballistic Missile and Launch Systems 1955-2005. Osprey Publishing, 2006.
• Red Thrust: Attack on the Central Front, Soviet Tactics and Capabilities in the 1990s (1989) ISBN 0-89141-345-6
• T-34 in Action, (with James Grandsen) Carrollton, Texas: Squadron/Signal. ISBN 0-89747-112-1
• Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two(with James Grandsen), London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 0-85368-606-8
• T-34-85 Medium Tank 1944–94, (with Jim Kinnear) Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-85532-535-7
• Soviet Tanks in Combat 1941–45: The T-28, T-34, T-34-85, and T-44 Medium Tanks (with Jim Kinnear, Andrey Aksenov & Aleksandr Koshchavtsev) Hong Kong: Concord Publication. ISBN 962-361-615-5.
• T-34 Medium Tank 1941–45, (with Peter Sarson) Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-85532-382-6
• Soviet Heavy Tanks (with James Grandsen). London: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 0-85045-422-0
• KV-1 & 2 Heavy Tanks 1939–1945 (with Peter Sarson). Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-85532-496-2
• Bagration 1944: The Destruction of Army Group Centre. Osprey Publishing, 1996. ISBN 978-1855324787
• Overlord: The D-Day Landings. Osprey Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84603-424-4
• Modeling US Armor of World War 2. Osprey Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84603-398-8
• Red Sam: The SA-2 Guideline Anti-Aircraft Missile. Osprey Publishing, 2007. ISBN 184-6-03062-5, ISBN 978-1-84603-062-8. 48pp
• Japanese Tanks 1941–45 Osprey Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84603-091-8
• T-80 Standard Tank: The Soviet Army's Last Armored Champion Osprey Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84603-244-8

• 2005 D-Day Fortifications in Normandy (Fortress S.)
• 2005 Anzio 1944: The Beleaguered Beachhead (Campaign S.)
• 1989 The Red Army of the Great Patriotic War, 1941-45 (Men-at-arms S.)