Gwynne Dyer
Gwynne Dyer, Ph.D ,
MA ,
BA (born
April 17,
1943) is a
London-based independent
Canadian journalist, syndicated
columnist and military
historian.
He was born in
St. John's, Newfoundland and joined the
Royal Canadian Navy at the age of sixteen. While still in the navy, he obtained a
BA in
History from
Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1963; an
MA in
Military History from
Rice University,
Houston, Texas, in 1966; and a
Ph.D in Military and
Middle Eastern History at
King's College London in 1973. Dyer served in the Canadian, American and British navies. He was employed as a
Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, 1973-77. In 1973 he began writing articles for leading London newspapers on the
Arab-Israeli conflict, and soon decided to abandon academic life for a full-time career in journalism. His twice-weekly column on
international affairs is published by 175 papers in 45 countries and is translated into more than a dozen languages.
Books
War: The Lethal Custom (1985) ISBN 0786715383
The Defence of Canada: In the Arms of the Empire (1990) ISBN 0771029756
Ignorant Armies: Sliding Into War in Iraq (2003) ISBN 0771029772
Future: Tense : The Coming World Order (2004) ISBN 0771029780
With Every Mistake (2005) ISBN 0679314024
Documentaries
Anybody's Son Will Do (1983)
War (1983)
The Defence of Canada (1986)
The Space Between (1986)
Harder Than It Looks (1987)
The Human Race (1994)
Radio Series
Seven Faces of Communism (1978)
Brazil (1979)
The Catholic Counter-Revolution (1980)
War (1981)
The Gorbachev Revolution (1988-90)
Millennium (1996)
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