Dr Rhys Crawley is a senior lecturer in history and member of the War Studies Research Group at UNSW Canberra, and the author of the Official History of Australian Operations in Afghanistan, 2005-10.
From 2016-2023, he worked at the Australian War Memorial, and before that, from 2010-16, at the Australian National University.
A member of the editorial boards for War & Society and the Australian Army Journal, and a specialist in Australian military and intelligence history, his books include Climax at Gallipoli: The Failure of the August Offensive (University of Oklahoma Press, 2014), The Secret Cold War: The Official History of ASIO, 1975-1989 (Allen & Unwin, 2016), Intelligence and the Function of Government (Melbourne University Press, 2018), Gallipoli: New Perspectives on the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force 1915-16 (Helion, 2018), and The Long Search for Peace: Observer Missions and Beyond, 1947-2006 (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
