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Nationality
  
Canadian

Occupation
  
journalist


Name
  
Gwynne Dyer

Role
  
Journalist


Born
  
April 17, 1943 (age 80) (
1943-04-17
)
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador (then Dominion of Newfoundland)

Movies and TV shows
  
War, The Profession of Arms, ANYBODY'S SON WILL DO, The Price of Duty, Defence of Canada

Education
  
King's College London, University of London, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Rice University

Awards
  
Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series

Books
  
Climate Wars: The Fight for, War, Ignorant Armies, The Mess They Made, Future: Tense: The Coming

Similar People
  
Eric Margolis, Jack Vance, Priyamvada Gopal, Paul Cowan

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

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Life

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 Bachelor of Arts in history from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1963; a Master of Arts in military history from Rice University in Houston, Texas, in 1966; and a Doctor of Philosophy 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:

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.

Books

  • War (1985) ISBN 0-517-55615-4
  • 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
  • War: The Lethal Custom (2005) ISBN 0-7867-1538-3
  • The Mess They Made: The Middle East After Iraq (2007) ISBN 0-7710-2980-2
  • After Iraq: Anarchy and Renewal in the Middle East. 2008 ISBN 9780312378455; German edition ISBN 3593387050
  • Climate Wars (2008) ISBN 978-0-307-35583-6
  • Crawling from the Wreckage (2010) ISBN 978-0-307-35891-2
  • Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014 (2014) ISBN 978-0-307-36168-4 eBook ISBN 978-0-307-36170-7
  • 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)
  • References

    Gwynne Dyer Wikipedia