Gregory R. Copley

Biography

Historian, author and strategic analyst — and onetime industrialist — Gregory R. Copley, 66, has for four decades worked at the highest levels with various governments around the world, advising on national security, intelligence, and national management issues. He has authored more than 30 books, including "The Art of Victory" (2006) and "UnCivilization: Urban Geopolitics in a Time of Chaos" (2012). An Australian, he is President of the International Strategic Studies Association, based in Washington, DC, and Editor-in-Chief of the "Defense & Foreign Affairs" group of publications, including the government-only intelligence service, the Global Information System. Among his international recognitions, he was, in 2007, made a Member of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
 
Gregory Copley, AM, GCHT*, FRCGS
grcopley@aol.com

Latest articles from Gregory

• How Would the World Change if the International Energy Trade Transformed?

  Published 21 May 2013 | viewed 957 times

  How would the global framework transform if the trans-national trade in energy ceased to be a significant factor in strategic affairs? Some states, dependent principally…

• The Road to Damascus is Paved With Ill-Intent

  Published 09 May 2013 | viewed 1,313 times

  The Biblical conversion of Paul to Christianity “on the road to Damascus” implied a turning point for the onetime antagonist of Christ. But now the…

• Water: the Key to a Strategic Victory in Any Conflict

  Published 09 April 2013 | viewed 1,244 times

  Napoleon said that an army marched on its stomach. But he lost most of his Grande Armée to disease, much of it the result of…

• DPRK Test Nuclear Weapon Destined for Iran

  Published 18 February 2013 | viewed 3,507 times

  All intelligence indicators received and processed by GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs show that the nuclear weapon tested by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK:…

• Mali, Nigeria, and the Bigger Picture

  Published 05 February 2013 | viewed 2,068 times

  The Mali War will be neither simple nor quick, ‘though the players all wish it so.  Timboctou, almost a year in the hands of militants,…

• The Transition Beyond Strategic Nuclear War

  Published 08 January 2013 | viewed 2,735 times

  The world is now well advanced in transition to the age beyond strategic nuclear weapons. It may be, from the standpoint of military descriptors, a…

• Can Hugo Chavez's New Term of Government Start without Him?

  Published 07 January 2013 | viewed 1,628 times

  Venezuela’s ruling Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (United Socialist Party: PSUV) has, since mid-December 2012, been working on devising a plan to initiate President-elect Hugo…

• Turkey Stumbles, But Washington Pushed

  Published 21 October 2012 | viewed 1,562 times

  The mid-October 2012 Turkish interception of an alleged Syrian military shipment was intended to build momentum for the case to intervene in Syria. But it…

• The New 9/11 Attacks: A Drama Which Obscures the Domestic Power-Plays in Libya

  Published 23 September 2012 | viewed 2,199 times

  The surge in jihadist attacks on US diplomatic missions in September 2012 largely obscured the complex realities around a number of individual incidents and locales,…

• A Confluence of Events in the Horn

  Published 06 September 2012 | viewed 2,835 times

  The announcement of the death of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi — possibly a month after he actually died — starts to focus the growing…

• A New Global Pattern is Emerging Which Will Dictate How Strategies Are Planned

  Published 31 July 2012 | viewed 2,253 times

  Economic, social, political, and demographic changes are key drivers in what is a transforming global strategic architecture. This will necessitate a revision of existing power…

• Pakistan Moves Toward Political, if Not Economic, Stability

  Published 30 July 2012 | viewed 1,408 times

  Pakistan, with its political stand-off with the US Government now at least superficially resolved — and with Coalition convoys once again resuming logistical activities between…

• Can Libya Repel the Invaders and Survive?

  Published 29 July 2012 | viewed 16,324 times

  Libyans went, on July 7, 2012, into their first national elections in decades, and foreign observers hailed the fact that the event took place so…

• Global Energy Could Change as the Autocracies of Ethiopia and Eritrea Fall Apart

  Published 26 July 2012 | viewed 7,467 times

  The Emperor’s Ghost: How the Transformations in the Horn of Africa and Red Sea Reflect, and Help Change, the Global Energy and Geopolitical SceneThe Red…

• Iran at Its Strategic Juncture

  Published 18 July 2012 | viewed 1,969 times

  Iran, no less than the European Union or the United States of America, faces a series of problems which place it at a critical strategic…

• The Crisis of Democracy Has Reached Act Two

  Published 19 June 2012 | viewed 1,843 times

  It would be a mistake to think that the Western economic crisis is being managed toward a successful conclusion; that perhaps it can escape from…

• Has Julia Gillard's Time in Power Ruined Australia's Economy?

  Published 11 May 2012 | viewed 3,623 times

  Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s Labour Party (ALP)-dominated coalition Government of Australia has clung to power without an express public mandate since the August 21, 2010,…

• The U.S. Turns its Back on Europe, Allowing Russia and China to Approach

  Published 10 May 2012 | viewed 2,580 times

  Europe is at a pivotal point. Or, rather, it is at a point where its structural transformation can no longer be ignored. Events in Europe…

• How Malaysian and French Elections could be Affected by the Submarine Scandal

  Published 20 April 2012 | viewed 2,882 times

  Malaysia’s submarine procurement scandal was, by mid-April 2012, spilling onto the French political scene, highlighting a range of political and strategic dilemmas which ultimately impact…

• Intelligence Report: Why Prospects of an Israel Iran Conflict Remain Low

  Published 08 April 2012 | viewed 4,878 times

  Global security concerns continued, in early April 2012, to be geared around the possibility of armed conflict between Iran and Israel, an issue hedged by…