Some years ago, I coined the phrase, “the era of strategic happy talk” to describe the decades following the fall of the Soviet Union and the American victory against Iraq in 1991. But close attention to his arguments yielded vast rewards because of the quality of his insights, especially in the areas of international relations, geopolitics, strategy and strategic thinking, and strategic culture. Gray’s somewhat Victorian style of writing was not to everyone’s taste. Over his fruitful career, he authored some 30 books and countless articles on strategy, arms control, nuclear policy, and geopolitics. He retired most recently from the University of Reading. He taught at the Universities of Hull, Lancaster, and York, in the UK and at the Universities of Toronto and British Columbia in Canada. Among other posts, he served from 1982 until 1987 in the Reagan administration’s General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament. He was my friend and mentor.Įducated at Oxford and the University of Manchester, Colin worked in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom in both government and academia. He was the teacher of two generations of U.S. Gray, the most consequential Anglo-American strategist of our time, died after a decades-long struggle with cancer.
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