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.

Works

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
• 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)

External links

• Official Website

1943 births | Living people | Canadian historians | Military historians | Canadian columnists | Canadian political writers | Memorial University alumni | St. Johnsers | Alumni of King's College London | Newfoundland and Labrador writers