Steven Zaloga

Steven J. 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.

Steven Zaloga
Steven Zaloga presenting at the New York Military Affairs Symposium
Born (1952-02-01) February 1, 1952
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
EducationUnion College, Schenectady, NY, B.A. cum laude (History)
Columbia University, M.A. (History)
Certificate in International Affairs; graduate study at University of Cracow
Employer
  • DMS, Inc., Greenwich, CT, managing editor of special studies, 1978-86
  • Video Ordnance, Inc., New York City, producer, 1987-92
  • Teal Group Cor., Fairfax, VA, senior analyst, 1993--
  • Institute for Defense Analyses, adjunct staff member, 1995--
  • Technology Training Corp., lecturer, 1987-91
Political partyRepublican
Board member ofNew York Military Affairs Symposium (member of executive board)
Parent(s)John A. (a foreman) and Muriel (a high school language teacher; maiden name, Desautels) Zaloga
Notes

He has published many books dealing with modern military technology, and especially Soviet and CIS tanks and armoured warfare. He is a senior analyst at the Teal Group.[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.[4] He is a frequent contributor to the UK-based modeling magazine Military Modelling. He is a member of the Armor Modeling and Preservation Society.

Works
  • —; Loop, James W. (1 January 1982). Modern American Armor: Combat Vehicles of the United States Army Today (1st ed.). Arms & Armour Press. ISBN 978-0853682486. LCCN 81208199. OCLC 249730412. OL 3880977M.
  • — (21 January 1982). The Polish Army 1939-1945. Men at Arms. Illustrated by Richard Hook (First ed.). Osprey. ISBN 978-0850454178. OCLC 9136152. OL 8264803M.
  • — (1 June 1995). Inside the Blue Berets: A Combat History of Soviet and Russian Airborne Forces, 1930-1995. Novato, CA: Presidio. ISBN 978-0891413998. LCCN 94040927. OCLC 31517759. OL 1114934M – via Internet Archive.
  • — (15 January 1996). Bagration 1944: The Destruction of Army Group Centre. Campaign. Osprey. ISBN 978-1-85532-478-7. LCCN 2003063213. OCLC 474518236. OL 8992906M.
  • — (25 November 2000). M26/M46 Pershing Tank 1943–53. New Vanguard. Illustrated by Tony Bryan and Jim Laurier (1st ed.). Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1841762029. OCLC 48783982. OL 8922180M.
  • — (1 January 2005). V-1 Flying Bomb 1942–52: Hitler's infamous "doodlebug". New Vanguard. Illustrated by Jim Laurier (Fourth ed.). Osprey. ISBN 978-1841767918. OCLC 60834667. OL 8922703M.
  • — (10 August 2005). Anzio 1944: The Beleaguered Beachhead. Campaign. Illustrated by Peter Dennis. Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84176-913-4. OCLC 936633399. OL 8922813M.
  • — (2008). Armored Thunderbolt: The U.S. Army Sherman in World War II. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-811-70424-3. LCCN 2008003234. OCLC 237193918. OL 16445043M.
  • — (24 August 2010). Battle of the Bulge. Long Island City: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84908-165-8. LCCN 2011381845. OCLC 900919720. OL 25056439M – via Internet Archive.
  • — (29 October 2019). Ploesti 1943: The great raid on Hitler's Romanian oil refineries. Air Campaign. Illustrated by Steve Noon (First ed.). Osprey. ISBN 978-1472831804. OCLC 1111474916. OL 28900822M.
  • — (2003), Battle of the Bulge 1: St Vith and the Northern Shoulder, Campaign, Long Island City: Osprey
  • —, Battle of the Bulge 2: Bastogne, Campaign, Long Island City: Osprey
  • —; Johnson, Hugh (2005), D-Day Fortifications in Normandy, Oxford: Osprey, ISBN 1-841-76876-6, OCLC 61529026
  • — (2013), The Devil's Garden: Rommel's Desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day, Stackpole Books, ISBN 978-0-811-71228-6, OCLC 828488810
  • — (2010), French Tanks of World War I, New Vanguard, Osprey, ISBN 978-1-84603-513-5
  • Zaloga, Steven J. (2008). German V-Weapon Sites 1943–45. Fortress 72. Illustrated by Hugh Johnson and Chris Taylor. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84603-247-9.
  • — (2007), Japanese Tanks 1939–45, New Vanguard, Osprey, ISBN 978-1-84603-091-8
  • —; Welply, Michael (2005), Kasserine Pass 1943: Rommel's Last Victory, Oxford: Osprey, ISBN 1-841-76914-2, OCLC 60793211
  • — (2002), The Kremlin's Nuclear Sword: The Rise and Fall of Russia's Strategic Nuclear Forces, 1945–2000, Random House, ISBN 1-58834-007-4
  • —; Sarson, Peter (15 January 1996), KV-1 & 2 Heavy Tanks 1939–1945, New Vanguard, Oxford: Osprey, ISBN 1-85532-496-2
  • Zaloga, Steven J. (2005). Jeeps 1941–45. New Vanguard. Illustrated by Hugh Johnson. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84176-888-5.
  • M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank 1982-92 (1993) ISBN 978-1-85532-283-7
  • — (2012). M4 Sherman vs Type 97 Chi-Ha: The Pacific 1945. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1849086387.
  • Modeling the M3/M5 Stuart Light Tank. Modelling Masterclass. Osprey, 2003. ISBN 1-84176-763-8
  • Modeling US Armor of World War 2. Modelling Masterclass. Osprey, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84603-398-8
  • Modern Soviet Armor: Combat Vehicles of the USSR and Warsaw Pact Today (1980) ISBN 0-13-597856-4
  • Zaloga, Steve, and James Grandsen. Operation Barbarossa. London: Arms and Armour Press, 1985. ISBN 0-853-68702-1 OCLC 12807954
  • Overlord: The D-Day Landings. Osprey, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84603-424-4
  • Zaloga, Steve. Poland 1939: The Birth of Blitzkrieg. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2004. ISBN 0-275-98278-5 OCLC 53276520
  • Zaloga, Steven and Victor Madej, The Polish Campaign 1939. Hippocrene Books, 1991. ISBN 087052013X
  • Zaloga, Steve, and Ron Volstad. The Red Army of the Great Patriotic War, 1941-45 (Men-at-arms S.), London: Osprey, 1989. ISBN 0-850-45939-7 OCLC 29634302
  • Red Sam: The SA-2 Guideline Anti-Aircraft Missile. Osprey, 2007. ISBN 1-84603-062-5, ISBN 978-1-84603-062-8. 48pp
  • Red Thrust: Attack on the Central Front, Soviet Tactics and Capabilities in the 1990s Novato, CA: Presidio, 1989. ISBN 0-89141-345-6 OCLC 20169366
  • Zaloga, Steve. Remagen 1945: Endgame against the Third Reich. Oxford, U.K.: Osprey, 2006.
  • Scud Ballistic Missile and Launch Systems 1955–2005. Osprey Publishing, 2006.
  • Zaloga, Steve, and Peter Sarson. Sherman Medium Tank, 1942–1945. London: Osprey, 1993. ISBN 1-855-32296-X OCLC 30028610
  • Zaloga, Steve, and Steve Noon. The Siegfried Line, 1944–45: Battles on the German Frontier. Oxford, UK: Osprey, 2007. ISBN 1-846-03121-4 OCLC 76365230
  • Zaloga, Steve, James W. Loop, and Ron Volstad. Soviet Bloc Elite Forces. London: Osprey, 1985. ISBN 0-850-45631-2 OCLC 12501799
  • Soviet Heavy Tanks (with James Grandsen). London: Osprey. ISBN 0-85045-422-0
  • Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two(with James Grandsen), London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 0-85368-606-8
  • 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 in Action, (with James Grandsen) Carrollton, Texas: Squadron/Signal. ISBN 0-89747-112-1
  • T-34 Medium Tank 1941–45, (with Peter Sarson) Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1-85532-382-6
  • T-34-85 Medium Tank 1944–94, (with Jim Kinnear) Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1-85532-535-7
  • 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
  • T-80 Standard Tank: The Soviet Army's Last Armored Champion Osprey, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84603-244-8
  • Tanks of Hitler's Eastern Allies 1941–45, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013

See also
  • David Doyle – American writer on historic military vehicles, hardware, aircraft and warships

References
  1. "Steven Joseph Zaloga". Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale. 2007. Retrieved 12 March 2012 – via Fairfax County Public Library.
  2. "Steven J. Zaloga". Teal Group Corporation. Archived from the original on 5 November 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2022. Steve received his BA in history cum laude from Union College, Schenectady, NY, and an MA in history from Columbia University. He performed graduate research at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.
  3. "Aerospace Markets--The Decade Ahead". aaia.org. Archived from the original on 16 June 2011.
  4. "Discussion Groups - Allied WWII"

Further reading
  • "Author Profile: Steven J Zaloga". Osprey Publishing. n.d. Archived from the original on 28 January 2022. Retrieved 21 February 2022. Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in History from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for over two decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and military history, with an accent on the US Army in World War II as well as Russia and the former Soviet Union.
  • "Interview with Steven Zaloga". ScaleClub. 6 August 2010. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
  • "Steven J(oseph) Zaloga" (fee, via Fairfax County Public Library). The Writers Directory. Detroit: St. James Press. 2011. GALE|K1649568667. Retrieved 2012-03-12. Gale Biography In Context.
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