Steven Joseph 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. 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. **Source**: [Steven J. Zaloga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_J._Zaloga) on Wikipedia.