Publications Bibliography by Professor Colin S. Gray (1943-2020)
Table of Contents*
(updated October 11, 2020)
Books
Edited Books
Monographs
Chapters in Books
Articles in Journals
(N.B. excluding reports for the U.S. and U.K. governments).
BOOKS:
Theory of Strategy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 162 pp.
Strategy and Politics (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016), 178 pp.
The Future of Strategy (Cambridge: Polity Press 2015), 188 pp.
Strategy and Defence Planning: Meeting the Challenge of Uncertainty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 225 pp.
Perspectives on Strategy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 229 pp.
Airpower for Strategic Effect (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2012).
The Strategy Bridge: Theory for Practice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 308pp.
National Security Dilemmas: Challenges and Opportunities (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2009), 344pp.
Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007), 190pp.
War, Peace and International Relations: An Introduction to Strategic History (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2007, 2011), 306pp and (2nd edn.) 374pp.
Strategy and History: Essays on Theory and Practice (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2006), 234pp.
Another Bloody Century: Future Warfare (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2005), 431pp
The Sheriff: America’s Defense of the New World Order (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 195pp.
Strategy for Chaos: Revolutions in Military Affairs and the Evidence of History (London: Frank Cass, 2002), 310pp.
Modern Strategy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 412pp.
The Second Nuclear Age (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999), 193pp.
Explorations in Strategy (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996; 1998 sec. ed. pb [Praeger]), 265pp.
The Navy in the Post–Cold War World: The Uses and Value of Strategic Sea Power (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1994), 204pp.
Weapons Don't Make War: Policy, Strategy, and Technology (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993), 236pp.
The Leverage of Sea Power: The Strategic Advantage of Navies in War (New York: The Free Press, 1992), 372pp.
House of Cards: Why Arms Control Must Fail (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992), 242pp.
War, Peace, and Victory: Strategy and Statecraft for the Next Century (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), 442pp.
The Geopolitics of Super Power (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 274pp.
Nuclear Strategy and National Style (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986), 363pp
American Military Space Policy: Information Systems, Weapon Systems, and Arms Control (Cambridge, MA: Abt, 1983), 128pp.
Strategic Studies and Public Policy: The American Experience (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1982), 230pp.
Strategic Studies: A Critical Assessment (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982), 213pp.
The MX ICBM and National Security (New York: Praeger, 1981), 173pp.
The Soviet—American Arms Race (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1976), 196pp.
Canadian Defence Policy: A Question of Priorities (Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1972), 293pp.
EDITED BOOKS:
ed. (with John Baylis and James J. Wirtz) Strategy in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies, 6thedn., (Oxford University Press, 2019).
ed. (with John Baylis and James Wirtz) Strategy in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies, 5th edn., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).
ed. (with John Baylis and James Wirtz) Strategy in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies, 4th edn. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
ed. (with John Andreas Olsen The Practice of Strategy: From Alexander the Great to the Present (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
ed. (with John Baylis and James Wirtz) Strategy in the Contemporary World, 3rd edn. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
ed. (with John Baylis, James Wirtz, and Eliot Cohen) Strategy in the Contemporary World, 2nd edn. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
ed. (with John Baylis, James Wirtz, and Eliot Cohen) Strategy In the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
ed. (with Geoffrey Sloan) Geopolitics, Geography, and Strategy (London: Frank Cass, 1999).
ed. of Charles E. Callwell, Military Operations and Maritime Preponderance: Their Relations and Interdependence, With an Introduction and Notes by Colin S. Gray, Classics of Sea Power Series (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996, reprint, London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1905).
ed. (with Roger W. Barnett) Seapower and Strategy (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1989)
ed. (with Keith B. Payne) Missiles for the Nineties: ICBMs and Strategic Policy (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1984).
ed. (with Keith B. Payne) The Nuclear Freeze Controversy (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984).
MONOGRAPHS
Tactical Operations for Strategic Effect: The Challenge of Currency Conversion, JSOU Special Report (MacDill Air Force Base, FL: Joint Special Operations University, Joint Special Operations University Press, 2015).
Thucydides Was Right: Defining the Future Threat (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, April 2015).
Always Strategic: Jointly Essential Landpower (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, February 2015).
Defense Planning for National Security: Navigation Aids for the Mystery Tour (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, March 2014).
Making Strategic Sense of Cyber: Why the Sky is Not Falling (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, April 2013).
Categorical Confusion? The Strategic Implications of Recognizing Challenges either as Irregular or Traditional (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, February 2012).
Hard Power and Soft Power: The Utility of Military Force as an Instrument of Policy in the 21st Century (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, April 2011.
Schools for Strategy: Teaching Strategy for 21st Century Conflict (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, November 2009).
Understanding Airpower: Bonfire of the Fallacies, Research Paper 2009–3 (Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air Force Research Institute, Air University, March 2009).
After Iraq: The Search for a Sustainable National Security Strategy (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, January 2009).
The Airpower Advantage in Future Warfare: The Need for Strategy, Research Paper 2007–2 (Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Airpower Research Institute, Air Force Doctrine and Development Center, Air University, December 2007).
The Implications of Preemptive and Preventive War Doctrines: A Reconsideration (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, July 2007).
Irregular Enemies and the Essence of Strategy: Can the American Way of War Adapt? (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, March 2006).
Recognizing and Understanding Revolutionary Change in Warfare: The Sovereignty of Context (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, February 2006).
Transformation and Strategic Surprise (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, April 2005).
“Clausewitz, History, and the Future Strategic World,” and “In Defence of the Heartland: Sir Halford Mackinder and His Critics a Hundred Years On.” In Contemporary Essays, Occasional Paper No. 47 (Shrivenham, UK: Strategic and Combat Studies Institute, 2004), pp. 1–24, 25–44.
Maintaining Effective Deterrence (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, August 2003).
Defining and Achieving Decisive Victory (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, April (2002).
European Perspectives on U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense (Fairfax, VA: National Institute for Public Policy, March 2002).
Weapons for Strategic Effect: How Important Is Technology? Occasional Paper No. 21 (Maxwell AFB, AL: Center for Strategy and Technology, Air War College, January 2001).
The American Revolution in Military Affairs: An Interim Assessment, Occasional Paper No. 28 (Camberley, UK: Strategic and Combat Studies Institute, Joint Services Command and Staff College, 1997).
NATO and the Evolving Structure of Order in Europe: Changing Terms of the TransAtlantic Bargain? Hull Strategy Paper No. 1 (Hull, UK: Centre for Security Studies, University of Hull, January 1997).
Canadians in a Dangerous World (Toronto: The Atlantic Council of Canada, 1994).
Villains, Victims and Sheriffs: Strategic Studies for an Inter–War Period, An Inaugural Lecture (Hull: University of Hull Press, 1994).
Maritime Strategy, Geopolitics, and the Defense of the West, (New York: Ramapo Press, 1986).
Missiles Against War: The ICBM Debate Today (Fairfax, Va.: National Institute for Public Policy, 1984).
Nuclear Strategy and Strategic Planning (Philadelphia: Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1984).
Strategy and the MX, Critical Issues Series (Washington, D.C.: Heritage Foundation, 1980).
The Geopolitics of the Nuclear Era: Heartland, Rimlands, and the Technological Revolution, (New York: Crane, Russak, September 1977).
The Future of Land–Based Missile Forces, Adelphi Paper No. 140 (London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, Winter 1977).
(ed.) Strategic Survey, 1974 (London International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1975).
(ed.) Canadian Military Professionalism: The Search for Identity, Wellesley Paper No. 2 (Toronto: Canadian Institute of international Affairs, February 1973).
Canadian Maritime Forces, Wellesley Paper No. 1 (Toronto: Canadian Institute of International Affairs, January 1973).
“Canada and NORAD: A Study in Strategy,” Behind the Headlines, Vol. XXXI, No. 3–4 (June 1972).
“Security Through SALT?” Behind the Headlines, Vol. XXX, Nos. 3–4 (April 1971).
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
And – forthcoming 2020, “Superpower and World Order”, in The Sheathed Sword: From Nuclear Brink to No First Use, ed. by Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon, Takshashila Institution, Bengalaru, India.
“Strategy and Defence Planning”, in John Baylis, James J. Wirtz, and Colin S. Gray, eds., Strategy in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies, 6th edn., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 165-180.
(with Jeannie L. Johnson) “The Practice of Strategy,” in John Baylis, James J. Wirtz, and Colin S. Gray, eds.,Strategy in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies, 5th edn., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 356–373.
“Airpower Theory”, in John Andreas Olsen, ed., Airpower Reborn: The Strategic Concepts of John Warden and John Boyd (Annapolis, D: Naval Institute Press, 2015), pp. 156–180.
“Strategy and Culture,” in Thomas G. Mahnken and Dan Blumenthal, eds., Strategy in Asia: The Past, Present, and Future of Regional Security (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014), pp. 92–107.
“Dowding and the British Strategy of Air Defense, 1936–1940,” in Williamson Murray and Richard Hart Sinnreich, eds., Successful Strategies: Triumphing in War and Peace from Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 241–279.
(with Jeannie L. Johnson) “The Practice of Strategy,” in John Baylis, James J. Wirtz, and Colin S. Gray, eds.,Strategy in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 358–376).
“Harry S. Truman and the forming of American grand strategy in the Cold War, 1945–1953,” in Williamson Murray, Richard Hart Sinnreich, and James Lacey, eds., The Shaping of Grand Strategy: Policy, Diplomacy, and War (Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 210–253.
“The Nuclear Age and the Cold War,” and “Conclusions,” in John Andreas Olsen and Colin S. Gray, eds., The Practice of Strategy: From Alexander the Great to the Present (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 237–259, and 287–300.
“Approaching the Study of Strategy,” in Ralph Rotte and Christoph Schwarz, eds., International Security and War: Politics and Grand Strategy in the 21st Century (New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2011), pp. 11–21.
(with John Sheldon), “Theory Ascendant? Spacepower and the Challenge of Strategic Theory,” in Charles D. Lutes and Peter L. Hays, eds., Toward a Theory of Spacepower: Seleted Essays (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, February 2011), pp. 1–17.
“Why Strategy Is Difficult,” in Gary Sheffield, ed., War Studies Reader: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day and Beyond (London: Continuum, 2010), pp. 35–46.
“Coping with Uncertainty: Dilemmas of Defense Planning,” in Stephen J. Cimbala, ed., The George W. Bush Defense Program: Policy, Strategy and War (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2010), pp. 1–10.
(with Jeannie L. Johnson) “The Practice of Strategy,” in John Baylis, James J. Wirtz, and Colin S. Gray, eds., Strategy in the Contemporary World, 3rd edn. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 372–390.
“Why strategy is difficult,” in Thomas G. Mahnken and Joseph A. Maiolo, eds., Strategic Studies: A Reader (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2008), pp. 391–397.
“Out of the Wilderness: Prime Time for Strategic Culture,” in Jeannie L. Johnson, Kerry M. Kartchner, and Jeffrey A. Larsen, eds., Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Culturally Based Insights and Comparative National Security Policymaking (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp. 221–241.
“Mission improbable, fear, culture, and interest: peacemaking, 1943–1949” in Williamson Murray and Jim Lacey, eds., The making of peace: Rulers, states, and the aftermath of war (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 265–291.
“British and American Strategic Cultures,” in Democracies in Partnership: 400 Years of Transatlantic Engagement, The ACT/ODU Jamestown Symposium, 18–19 April, 2007 (Norfolk, VA: HQ Allied Command Transformation, 2008), pp. 123–150.
“Been There! Done That! Blood in the Crystal Ball,” and “With Clausewitz to Eternity” in Donald A. Xerxa, ed., Recent Themes in Military History: Historians in Conversation (Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2008), pp. 51–57, 75–82.
“The Quadrennial Defense Review (2006) and the Perils of the 21st Century,” in Bradley A. Thayer, ed., American National Security Policy: Essays in Honor of William R. Van Cleave (Fairfax, VA: National Institute Press, 2007), pp. 70–76.
“Clausewitz, history, and the future strategic world,” in Williamson Murray and Richard Hart Sinnreich, eds., The Past as Prologue: The Importance of History to the Military Profession (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
“The American Way of War: Critique and Implications,” in Anthony D. Mc Ivor, ed., Rethinking the Principles of War(Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2005), pp. 13–40.
“In defence of the Heartland: Sir Halford Mackinder and his critics a hundred years on,” in Brian Blouet, ed., Global Geostrategy: Mackinder and the Defence of the West (London: Frank Cass, 2005), pp. 17–35.
“World Politics as Usual after September 11: Realism vindicated,” in Ken Booth and Tim Dunne, eds., Worlds in Collision: Terror and the Future of Global Order (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), pp. 226–234.
“The RMA and Intervention: A Sceptical View,” in Colin McInnes and Nicholas J. Wheeler, eds., Dimensions of Western Military Intervention (London: Frank Cass, 2002), pp. 52–65.
(with Malcolm R. Davis) “Weapons of Mass Destruction,” in John Baylis, James Wirtz, Eliot Cohen, and Colin S. Gray, eds., Strategy In the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Strategic Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 254–285.
“Sea Power in Modern Strategy,” in David Stevens and John Reeve, eds., Southern Trident: Strategy History and the Rise of Australian Naval Power (Crows Nest, NSW, Australia: Allen and Unwin, 2001), pp. 24–39.
“Inescapable Geography,” in Robert Pfaltzgraff, Jr., and William R. Van Cleave, eds., Strategy and International Politics: Essays In Memory of Werner Kaltefleiter (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2001), pp. 55–70.
“Amphibious Operations,” in Richard Holmes, ed., The Oxford Companion to Military History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 49–52.
“No Good Deed Shall Go Unpunished,” in Ken Booth, ed., The Kosovo Tragedy: The Human Rights Dimension(London: Frank Cass, 2001), pp. 302–306.
“Deterrence and the Nature of Strategy,” in Max G. Manwaring, ed., Deterrence in the 21st Century (London: Frank Cass, 2001), pp.17–26.
“To Confuse Ourselves: Nuclear Fallacies,” in John Baylis and Robert O’Neill, eds., Alternative Nuclear Futures: The Role of Nuclear Weapons in the Post–Cold War World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp.4–30.
“Clausewitz Rules, OK? The Future is the Past–with GPS,” in Michael Cox, Ken Booth and Tim Dunne, eds., The Interregnum: Controversies in World Politics, 1989–1999 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp.161–182.
(with John B. Sheldon) “Spacepower and the Revolution In Military Affairs: A Glass Half–Full,” In Peter L. Hays et al., eds., Spacepower for a New Millennium: Space and U.S. National Security (New York: McGraw–Hill, 2000), pp 239–257.
“Amphibious Operations,” in Martin Edmonds and Humphry Crum Ewing, eds., Maritime Forces in Peace and War: Joint and Combined Operations, Bailrigg Paper 30 (Lancaster: Lancaster University, Centre for Defence and International Security Studies, 1999), pp.74–77.
“The Role of Military Power in the 21st Century,” in Frances Omori and Mary A. Sommerville, eds., Strength Through Cooperation: Military Forces in the Asia—Pacific Region (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 1999), pp.29–55.
“Regional Deterrence,” in Ulrike Schumacher, ed., Structure, Order, and Disorder in World Politics: Papers Presented at the Summer Course 1998 on International Security (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1999), pp. 43–65.
“Introduction” to Jim Oberg, Space Power Theory (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999), pp. xiii–xv.
“L'influenza del potere spaziale nella storia,” in Carlo Maria Santoro, ed., Italo Balbo: Aviazione e Potere Aeroe, Atti del Convegno Internazionale nel centenario della nascita, Roma, 7–8 November 1996 (Rome: Aeronautica militare, 1998), pp. 251–274.
“The Revolution in Military Affairs,” in Brian Bond and Mungo Melvin, eds., The Nature of Future Conflict: Implications for Force Development, Occasional Paper No. 36 (Camberley, UK: Strategic and Combat Studies Institute, Joint Services Command and Staff College, September 1998), pp. 58–65.
“The Geopolitics of European Defence,” in Michael Duffy, Theo Farrell and Geoffrey Sloan, eds., European Defence in 2020, Proceedings of the Conference held at the University of Exeter, September 17–18, 1997 (Exeter: Britannia Royal Naval College and Exeter University, The Strategic Policy Studies Group, 1998), pp. 7–24.
“The Leverage of Seapower,” in Eric Grove and Capt. Peter Hore, RN, eds., Dimensions of Sea Power: Strategic Choice in the Modern World (Hull: The University of Hull Press, 1998), pp. 32–45.
“Nuclear Weapons and the Revolution in Military Affairs,” in T. V. Paul, Richard Harknett, and James J. Wirtz, eds., The Absolute Weapon Revisited: Nuclear Arms and the Emerging International Order (Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1998), pp. 99–134.
“Deterrence and Regional Conflicts: Hopes, Fallacies and 'Fixes',” in Werner Kaltefleiter and Ulrike Schumacher, eds., The Rise of a Multipolar World: Papers Presented at the International Summer Course, 1997 on National Security, Vol. 2 (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1998), pp. 115–140.
“Introduction,” in John Alexander, From the Sea: The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps into the 21st Century (London: Osprey, 1997), pp. 20–23.
“Weapons Proliferation: Insecurity and the Control of Arms in the Second Nuclear Age,” in Werner Kaltefleiter and Ulrike Schumacher, eds., Five Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Papers Presented at the International Summer Course, 1995 on National Security (Frank