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).
