Jeffrey Grey
Professor
History Program
Phone: +61 2 6268 8869
Fax: +61 2 6268 8879
Email: j.grey@adfa.edu.au
Professional Background
- BA(Hons) Australian National University 1983
- PhD University of NSW 1986
- Rector’s Commendation for Teaching Excellence (2005)
- Trustee, Society of Military History (US), 2000-2007
- Parliamentarian, Society of Military History (US), 2004-2007
- Major General Matthew C. Horner Chair of Military Theory, Marine Corps University, Quantico, Virginia, 2000-2002
- Editor, War & Society, 1990-1994, 2003 – 04
- Member of editorial board, Journal of the Australian War Memorial, Journal of Military History, Scientia Militaria (RSA) (current), World War II magazine (US) (current), War in History (UK) (current), Defender (current), Australian Army Journal (current)
Courses Taught
- Australian Military History
- Contemporary Warfare
- US Military History: A Survey Origins of Modern War
Research Interests / Projects
Australian military history; military historiography, especially official histories; British empire and Commonwealth military history; US military history; the evolution of military thought and doctrine; contemporary land warfare and the operational level of war; counterinsurgency theory and practice
Consulting / Professional Activities
- Member, Army Historical Advisory Committee 2007-
- Member, Army History Research Grant Schemes Committee, 2002-
- Consultant to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs on Veterans’ Entitlement Act cases for many years.
- Series consultant to the 8-part television series Australians at War (2001).
- Adjunct senior research fellow, Land Warfare Studies Centre.
- Regular manuscript assessment for publishers and journals in Australia and overseas
Publications (select)
Sole author
- Jeffrey Grey, The Commonwealth Armies and the Korean War: An Alliance Study, Manchester University Press, Manchester and Dover [New Hampshire], 1988, pp 244.
- A Military History of Australia, Cambridge Studies in Australian History, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1990, pp 284; 2nd edition, 1999, pp 300; 3rd edition, 2008, pp 334.
- Australian Brass: The Career of Lieutenant General Sir Horace Robertson, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1992, pp 250.
- 'Up Top': The Royal Australian Navy in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1955-1972, Allen&Unwin, Sydney, 1998, pp 368.
- A Commonwealth of Histories: the official histories of the Second World War in the United States, Britain and the Commonwealth, Trevor Reese Memorial Lecture, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, London, 1998, pp19.
- The Australian Army: volume I: The Australian Centenary History of Defence, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2001, 2006, pp 300.
Joint author
- Peter Dennis, Jeffrey Grey, Ewan Morris, Robin Prior, with John Connor, The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1995, pp 692.
- Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey, Emergency and Confrontation: Australian Military Operations in Malaya and Borneo 1950-1966, volume 5 in the Official History of Australia in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948-1975, Allen&Unwin, Sydney, 1996, pp 381.
- William Thomas Allison, Jeffrey Grey, Janet G. Valentine, American Military History: A survey from colonial times to the present, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River [New Jersey], 2007.
Edited works
- Peter Dennis, Jeffrey Grey and John McCarthy (eds), Revue Internationale d'Histoire Militaire, 72, Edition Australienne, Canberra, 1990, pp 180.
- Jeff Doyle and Jeffrey Grey (eds), Australia R&R: representations and reinterpretations of Australia's war in Vietnam, Vietnam Generation 3:2, Australian special issue, Chevy Chase [MD], 1991, pp 176.
- Peter Pierce, Jeff Doyle and Jeffrey Grey (eds), Vietnam Days: Australia and the Impact of Vietnam, Penguin, Ringwood, 1991, pp 323.
- Jeffrey Grey and Jeff Doyle (eds), Vietnam: War, Myth and Memory: Comparative Perspectives on Australia's War in Vietnam, Allen&Unwin, Sydney, 1992, pp 157.
- Jeffrey Grey and Peter Dennis (eds), From Past to Future: The Australian Experience of Land/Air Operations, Directorate of Army Research and Analysis, Canberra, 1995, pp 213.
- Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey (eds.), Serving Vital Interests: Australia's Strategic Planning in Peace and War, Directorate of Army Research and Analysis, Canberra, 1996, pp 153.
- Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey (eds.), The Second Fifty Years: The Australian Army 1947-1997, Directorate of Army History, Canberra, 1997. pp 133.
- Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey (eds.), 1918: Defining Victory, Army History Unit, Canberra, 1999, pp 185.
- Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey (eds.), The Boer War: Army, Nation and Empire, Army History Unit, Canberra, 2000, pp 235.
- Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey (eds.), The Korean War: A Fifty Year Retrospective, Army History Unit, Canberra, 2000, pp 199.
- Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey (eds.), A Century of Service: 100 Years of the Australian Army, Army History Unit, Canberra, 2001, pp 174.
- Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey (eds.), The Australian Army and the Vietnam War 1962-1972, Army History Unit, Canberra, 2002, pp 304.
- Jeff Doyle, Jeffrey Grey, Peter Pierce (eds.), Australia’s Vietnam War, Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 2002
- Jeffrey Grey (ed.), The Last Word? Essays on the Official Histories of the Second World War Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, 2003, pp 177.
- Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey (eds.), The Pacific War 1943-1944: The Foundations of Victory, Army History Unit, Canberra, 2004 pp 211.
- Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey (eds.), Battles Near and Far: A century of overseas deployments, Army History Unit, Canberra, 2005, pp 287.
- Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey (eds.), Entangling Alliances: Coalition Warfare in the Twentieth Century, Australian Military History Publishing, Canberra, 2005, pp 276.
- Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey (eds.), An Art in Itself: The Theory and Conduct of Small Wars and Insurgencies, Australian Military History Publishing, Canberra, 2006, pp 221.
Areas of Potential Postgraduate Supervision
- Australian military history; military historiography, especially official histories;
- British empire and Commonwealth military history;
- US military history; the evolution of military thought and doctrine;
- contemporary land warfare and the operational level of war;
- counterinsurgency theory and practice