Glantz (born January 11, 1942) is an American military historian known for his books on the Red Army during World War II, and the chief editor of The Journal of Slavic Military Studies.Born in Port Chester, New York, 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.
Glantz had a 30-plus year career in the United States Army, and served in the Vietnam War.