Gwynne Dyer

Gwynne Dyer
Born	(1943-04-17) April 17, 1943 St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador (then Dominion of Newfoundland)
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	journalist
Website	http://www.GwynneDyer.com

Gwynne Dyer, OC (born April 17, 1943) is a London-based independent Canadian journalist, syndicated columnist and military historian.

Dyer was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador (then the Dominion of Newfoundland) and joined the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve at the age of sixteen. While still in the naval reserve, he obtained a BA in history from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1963; an MA in military history from Rice University in Houston, Texas, in 1966; and a PhD in military and Middle Eastern history at King's College London in 1973. Dyer served in the Canadian, American and British naval reserves. 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. In 2010, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Circulation

Dyer writes a column on international affairs which is published in over 175 papers in at least 45 countries. Some papers that use Dyer's column regularly include:

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In the United States, his column appears in the Cincinnati Post, Columbus Dispatch, Dayton Daily News, Hartford Courant, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Newsday, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Raleigh News & Observer, The Sacramento Bee, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Salt Lake Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, Toledo Blade, Winston-Salem Journal and about twenty other papers. Older articles are available online at the columnist's official website. His 1985 book War and its namesake television series have been aired on BBC and PBS.

Works

Books

• War (1985) ISBN 0-517-55615-4
• War: The Lethal Custom (2005) ISBN 0-7867-1538-3
• The Defence of Canada: In the Arms of the Empire (1990) ISBN 0-7710-2975-6
• Ignorant Armies: Sliding Into War in Iraq (2003) ISBN 0-7710-2977-2
• Future: Tense : The Coming World Order (2004) ISBN 0-7710-2978-0
• With Every Mistake (2005) ISBN 0-679-31402-4
• The Mess They Made: The Middle East After Iraq (2007) ISBN 0-7710-2980-2
• Climate Wars (2008) ISBN 978-0-307-35583-6
• Crawling from the Wreckage (2010) ISBN 978-0-307-35891-2
• Don't Panic: Islamic State Terrorism and the Middle East (2015) ISBN 978-0-345-81586-6

Documentaries

• War (miniseries) (1983 8-part miniseries) The third part of the series named "the Profession of Arms" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
• The Defence of Canada (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)
• Climate Wars on CBC Radio Ideas (2008)(3-part documentary)

See also

• List of newspaper columnists

External links

• Official website
• Gwynne Dyer at the Internet Movie Database
• Profile
• Dyer interviewed on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Podcast.
• The Mess They Made on YouTube, a clip of Dyer answering questions about the book.
• Pakistan: Obama's Vietnam?
• Gwynne Dyer on "Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats" - video report by Democracy Now!
• A Response to Gwynne Dyer, "Ethiopia: Population, Famine and Fate, 1 September 2009"
• In Conversation: We Ain't Seen Nothing Yet: Gwynne Dyer, In Conversation with Robert S. Eshelman, The Brooklyn Rail