Dr. William (Bill) Spracher (Ed.D., Higher Education Administration), a retired U.S. Army colonel and longtime educator, has been selected for induction into the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame. He will be formally honored in June 2026 during a ceremony at the Army Intelligence Center of Excellence at Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
Dr. Spracher’s distinguished 30-year military career included 15 years as a Latin American Foreign Area Officer, with assignments as the Defense Attaché to Colombia and Army Attaché to Peru. His service also encompassed significant academic contributions, from teaching social studies at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to commanding the school battalion at the School of the Americas and teaching at the National Defense University’s Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies.
Following his military retirement, Dr. Spracher continued to advance the field of military intelligence through more than two decades of civilian teaching, including 11 years on the faculty of the National Intelligence University. He also served for 13 years as volunteer editor of the National Military Intelligence Foundation’s American Intelligence Journal (AIJ), where he wrote more than 40 articles, delivered 250 lectures, mentored 63 master’s theses, and supported 350 additional academic papers.
Across both military and civilian roles, Dr. Spracher has made enduring contributions to the doctrinal and scholarly foundation of the military intelligence community—bridging generations of professionals and strengthening the discipline’s academic and operational continuity.