Jeffrey Grey
Australian Defence Force Academy
Australia

Professor Jeffrey Grey graduated with honours in history from the Australian National University in 1983, and was subsequently awarded a Teaching Fellowship in the Department of History, Faculty of Military Studies, RMC, Duntroon.

He gained a PhD in history from the University of New South Wales in 1986. He is the author of The Commonwealth Armies and the Korean War (Manchester UP, 1988), A Military History of Australia (Cambridge UP, 1990) and a biography of Lieutenant General Sir Horace Robertson (Cambridge UP, 1992).

Dr. Grey has written on aspects of the Korean War, on problems of alliance warfare and on Australia and the Vietnam War; and is the current secretary of the Australian Commission of Military History. He is joint editor and author of The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (1995), joint author of Emergency and Confrontation: Australian military operations in Malaya and Borneo 1950-1966 (Allen and Unwin, 1996) and author of Up Top: the Royal Australian Navy: Southeast Asian Conflicts 1955-1972 (Allen and Unwin, 1998), both volumes in the current official histories series; author of The Australian Army (OUP, Melbourne, 2001), a volume in the Australian Centenary History of Defence. Between 2000-2202 he held the Major General Matthew C Horner Chair in Military Theory at the Marine Corps University at Quantico, Virginia, USA. He was promoted to professor within the University of New South Wales w.e.f. 1 January 2004.