Robert A. Vitas

Robert A. Vitas is a scholar of civil-military relations, national security strategy, and Lithuanian politics. He served as an enlisted man and officer in the U.S. Army Reserve. Dr. Vitas is a member of the Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Sciences and was a visiting scholar at Northwestern University. He is currently the executive director of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society and serves on the editorial board of its peer-reviewed journal, "Armed Forces & Society." Dr. Vitas is also the chairman of the board of the Lithuanian Research and Studies Center. He earned his Ph.D. at Loyola University Chicago and has produced scholarship with other notable civil-military relations scholars such as John Allen Williams and Sam C. Sarkesian.

Notable Publications

* U.S. National Security Policy and Strategy: Documents and Policy Proposals, Volume Two, 1986-1994. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996. Co-editor with John Allen Williams.

* The United States and Lithuania: The Stimson Doctrine of Nonrecognition. New York: Praeger, 1990, 176 pp. Author.

* U.S. National Security Policy and Strategy: Documents and Policy Proposals. Greenwood, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988, 441 pp. Co-editor with Sam C. Sarkesian.

* Civil-Military Relations in Lithuania Under President Antanas Smetona 1926-1940. Chicago: Lithuanian Research and Studies Center, 2004.

* "Civilian Graduate Education and the Professional Officer," Military Review, 89, 3 (May-June 1999), pp. 47-58. Author. Later translated into Chinese by the Taiwan Ministry of Defense for use in officer education.

* "The Recognition of Lithuania: The Completion of the Legal Circle." Journal of Baltic Studies, 24, 3 (Fall 1993), pp. 247-262. Author.