Staff Profile:Colin S. Gray

Name:

Professor Colin Gray

Job Title:

Sessional Lecturer

Responsibilities:

Leads teaching and research on International Politics and Strategic Studies at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Areas of Interest:

Strategic Studies, including strategic theory and strategic history. Most contemporary defence subjects (e.g. nuclear proliferation, counterinsurgency, technological innovation, strategy for ALL geographical environments).

Research groups / Centres:

I am Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies within the Department of Politics and International Relations. I have spoken at the Character of War project at Oxford, I am a very long-time member of the International Institute for Strategic studies and the Royal United Services Institute. Also, I am active member of an important strategic "think tank" in Washington, DC, the National Institute for Public Policy, which I founded in 1981. The United States is my principal country of interest and expertise.

Publications:

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Jump to: 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2004

Number of items: 52.

2013

• Gray, C. S. (2013) Perspectives on strategy. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp264. ISBN 9780199674275

2012

• Gray, C. (2012) Airpower for strategic effect. Air University Press, Maxwell Airforce Base, AL, pp288. ISBN 9780231703000

2011

• Gray, C. S. (2011) Harry S. Truman and the forming of American grand strategy in the Cold War, 1943-1953. In: Murray, W. , Sinnreich, R. H. and Lacey, J. (eds.) The shaping of grand strategy: policy, diplomacy, and war. Cambridge University Press, 210 -253. ISBN 9780521761260
• Gray, C. S. and Sheldon, J. B. (2011) Theory ascendant? Spacepower and the challenge of strategic theory. In: Lutes , C. D. and Hays, P. L. (eds.) Toward a Theory of Spacepower: Seleted Essays. National Defense University Press, Washington, DC.
• Gray, C. S. (2011) Approaching the study of strategy. In: Rotte , R. and Schwarz, C. (eds.) International Security and War: Politics and Grand Strategy in the 21st Century. Defense, Security and Strategies. Nova Science Publishers, New York, pp. 11-22. ISBN 9781616684174
• Gray, C. S. (2011) Some thoughts on moral choice and war. Comparative Strategy, 30 (1). pp. 94-97. ISSN 1521-0448 doi: 10.1080/01495933.2011.545690

2010

• Gray, C. S. (2010) Gaining compliance: the theory of deterrence and its modern application. Comparative Strategy, 29 (3). pp. 278-283. ISSN 1521-0448 doi: 10.1080/01495933.2010.492198
• Gray, C. S. (2010) Moral advantage, strategic advantage? Journal of Strategic Studies, 33 (3). pp. 333-365. ISSN 1743-937X doi: 10.1080/01402391003750010
• Gray, C. S. (2010) Strategic thoughts for defence planners. Survival, 52 (3). pp. 159-178. ISSN 0039-6338 doi: 10.1080/00396338.2010.494883
• Gray, C. (2010) Coping with uncertainty: dilemmas of defense planning. In: Cimbala, S. J. (ed.) The George W. Bush Defense Program: Policy, Strategy and War. Potomac Books, Dulles, VA, pp. 1-10. ISBN 9781597975087
• Gray, C. S., Baylis, J. and Wirtz, J. J., eds. (2010) Strategy in the contemporary world: an introduction to strategic studies. Third edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp480. ISBN 9780199548873
• Gray, C. S. (2010) War - continuity in change, and change in continuity. Parameters, 40 (Summer 201). pp. 5-13. ISSN 0031-1723
• Gray, C. S. (2010) Why strategy is difficult. In: Sheffield, G. (ed.) War studies reader: from the seventeenth century to the present day and beyond. Continuum, London, UK, pp. 35-46. ISBN 9780826421869
• Gray, C. S. and Johnson, J. L. (2010) The practice of strategy. In: Baylis, J., Wirstz, J. and Gray, C. S. (eds.) Strategy in the contemporary world: an introduction to strategic studies. Third edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 372-390. ISBN 9780199548873
• Gray, C. S. (2010) The practice of strategy. British Army Review (148). pp. 36-38. ISSN 0952-4134
• Gray, C. S. (2010) The strategy bridge: theory for practice. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp336. ISBN 9780199579662

2009

• Gray, C. S., (2009) Understanding air power: bonfire of the fallacies. Research paper 2009-3. Other. Air University Press pp39.
• Gray, C. S. (2009) The 21st Century security environment and the future of war. Parameters, XXXVIII (4). pp. 14-16.
• Gray, C. S. (2009) Fighting talk: Forty maxims on war, peace, and strategy. Potomac Books, Washington, DC, pp199. ISBN 9781597973076
• Gray, C. S. (2009) Mission improbable, fear, culture, and interest: peacemaking, 1943-1949. In: Murray, W. (ed.) The making of peace: Rulers, states, and the aftermath of war. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 265-291. ISBN 9780521517195
• Gray, C. S. (2009) National security dilemmas: Challenges and opportunities. Potomac Books, Washington, DC, pp334. ISBN 9781597972628
• Gray, C. S. (2009) Out of the wilderness: Prime time for strategic culture. In: Johnson, J.L. (ed.) Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Culturally Based Insights and Compartive National Security Policymaking. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 221-241. ISBN 9780230612211
• Gray, C. S., Bath, M., Sloan, G. R. F. and Walton, C. D. (2009) The Royal Navy and British security in the twenty-first century: The short game and the long game. The Naval Review, 97 (3). pp. 223-228.
• Gray, C. S. (2009) Schools for strategy: Teaching strategy for 21st century conflict. Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College , Carlisle, PA, pp63.

2008

• Gray, C. (2008) Britain's national security: compulsion and discretion. RUSI Journal, 153 (6). pp. 12-18. ISSN 1744-0378 doi: 10.1080/03071840802670007
• Gray, C. (2008) Coping with uncertainty: dilemmas of defense planning. Comparative Strategy, 27 (4). pp. 324-331. ISSN 1521-0448 doi: 10.1080/01495930802358414
• Gray, C. (2008) Why strategy is difficult. In: Mahnken, T. and Mailo, J. (eds.) Strategic studies: a reader. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 391-397. ISBN 9780415772228
• Gray, C. S. (2008) Been there! Done that! Blood in the crystal ball, and with Clausewitz to eternity. In: Yerxa, D. A. (ed.) Recent themes in military history: Historians in conversation. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC, 51-17 & 75. ISBN 9781570037399
• Gray, C. (2008) Understanding airpower: bonfire of the fallacies. Strategic Studies Quarterly, 2 (4). pp. 43-83. ISSN 1936-1823

2007

• Gray, C. (2007) The Anglo-Irish War, 1919-21: lessons from an irregular conflict. Comparative Strategy, 26 (5). pp. 371-394. ISSN 1521-0448 doi: 10.1080/01495930701750208
• Gray, C. (2007) War, peace and international relations: an introduction to strategic history. Routledge, Abingdon, pp320. ISBN 9780415386395
• Gray, C. (2007) British and American strategic cultures. In: Democracies in partnership: 400 years of transatlantic engagement, 18-19 April 2007, Norfolk.
• Gray, C. (2007) The Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) 2006, and the perils of the twenty-first century. In: Thayer, B. A. (ed.) American National Security Policy: Essays in Honor of William R. Van Cleave. National Institute Press, Fairfax, V.A., pp. 141-158. ISBN 9780977622115
• Gray, C. (2007) Deterrence: no guarantee but essential. Parliamentary Brief, 11. pp. 25-26. ISSN 1759-9318
• Gray, C. (2007) Out of the wilderness: prime time for strategic culture. Comparative Strategy, 26 (1). pp. 1-20. ISSN 1521-0448 doi: 10.1080/01495930701271478
• Gray, C., Baylis, J., Wirtz, J. and Cohen, E., eds. (2007) Strategy in the contemporary world. 2nd edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp416. ISBN 9780199289783
• Gray, C. (2007) Coping with uncertainty: dilemmas of defence planning. The British Army Review, 143. pp. 36-40. ISSN 0952-4134
• Gray, C. S. (2007) Fighting talk: forty maxims on war, peace and strategy. Praeger Security International . Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT, pp208. ISBN 9780275991319
• Gray, C. (2007) Irregular warfare: one nature, many characters. Strategic Studies Quarterly, 1 (2). pp. 35-57. ISSN 1936-1823
• Gray, C. (2007) The implications of preemptive and preventive War doctrines: a reconsideration. Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, Carlisle, PA, pp70.

2006

• Gray, C. (2006) Clausewitz, history and the future strategic world. In: Williamson, M. and Hart Sinnreich, R. (eds.) The past as prologue: the importance of history to the military profession. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 111-132. ISBN 9780521619639 doi: 10.2277/0521619637
• Gray, C. (2006) Document no.1: The Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) 2006, and the perils of the twenty-first century. Comparative Strategy, 25 (2). pp. 141-148. ISSN 1521-0448 doi: 10.1080/01495930600754533
• Gray, C., (2006) Irregular enemies and the essence of strategy: can the American way of war adapt? Other. The Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College , Carlisle, PA. pp71.
• Gray, C. (2006) Technology as a dynamic of defence transformation. Defence Studies, 6 (1). pp. 26-51. ISSN 1743-9698 doi: 10.1080/14702430600838461
• Gray, C. (2006) With Clausewitz to eternity. Historically Speaking, 7 (3). pp. 35-38. ISSN 1944-6438
• Gray, C. (2006) Been there! Done that! Blood in the crystal ball. Historically Speaking, 7 (3). pp. 25-28. ISSN 1944-6438
• Gray, C., (2006) Recognizing and understanding revolutionary change in warfare: the sovereignty of context. Report. Strategic Studies Institute, Carlisle, PA.
• Gray, C. (2006) Stability operations in strategic perspective: a skeptical view. Parameters, XXXVI (2). pp. 4-14. ISSN 0031-1723

2004

• Gray, C. S. (2004) Clausewitz, history and the future strategic world. In: Contemporary Essays, Occasional Paper 47. Strategic and Combat Studies Institute, Shrivenham, UK, pp. 1-24. ISBN 1874346370
• Gray, C. S. (2004) In defence of the heartland: Sir Halford Mackinder and his critics a hundred years on. Comparative Strategy, 23 (1). pp. 9-25. ISSN 1521-0448 doi: 10.1080/01495930490274454
• Gray, C. (2004) In defence of the heartland: Sir Halford Mackinder and his critics a hundred years on. In: Contemporary Essays, Occasional Paper 47. Strategic and Combat Studies Institute, Shrivenham, UK, pp. 25-44. ISBN 1874346370
• Gray, C. S. (2004) The sheriff: America's defense of the New World order. University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, pp195. ISBN 9780813123158

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I have published 22 books, most recently: The Strategy Bridge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, out in Sept. 2010), 'War, Peace and International Relations: An Introduction to Strategic History' (2007), and 'Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy' (2007). I am co-editor of the leading Strategic Studies text-book, published by OUP.

For further information please see my publications index.

Qualifications:

I have a BA (Econ.) Hons from Manchester University, and a D.Phil from Lincoln College, Oxford. Also, I have more than thirty years experience of teaching, writing about, and - to some extent - "doing" Strategic Studies, and for five of those years I was a member of the Reagan Administration, holding a Presidential appointment(requiring Senate confirmation).