Dr Gray was educated at the University of Manchester (B.A. [Econ.] hons.), 1965, and at Lincoln College, Oxford University (D.Phil., International Politics, 1970).  Dr Gray is Professor of International Politics and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading, England, and is a Senior Fellow at National Institute for Public Policy, Fairfax, VA.

Dr Gray has taught at the Universities of Lancaster (U.K.), York (Toronto, Canada) and British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada).  He served as Executive Secretary of the Strategic Studies Commission at the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (Toronto), and as Assistant Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London).  Dr Gray became Director of National Security Studies at the Hudson Institute (Croton-on-Hudson, New York) in 1976. In 1981 he was founding President of the National Institute for Public Policy, Fairfax, VA.

From 1982 until 1987 Dr Gray held a Presidential appointment when he served on the President's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament.  In April 1987 he was presented with the Superior Public Service Award by the U.S. Department of the Navy.  In 1997-98 he served on the Panel of Experts on the UK Strategic Defence Review.

He is a dual UK/US citizen.

Dr Gray is a member of the editorial boards of Comparative Strategy, Journal of Strategic Studies, Naval War College Review, and Journal of Terrorism and Organised Crime (UN). He has served on advisory panels for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (SDI and space weapons), the Department of the Army (tactical nuclear weapons), the Department of the Air Force (innovations), and U.S. Space Command (future of space  forces).

Dr. Gray's published books include:

• Canadian Defence Priorities (1972)

• The Soviet-American Arms Race (1976)

• The MX ICBM and National Security (1981)

• Strategic Studies and Public Policy (1982)

• Strategic Studies: A Critical Assessment (1982)

• American Military Space Policy (1983)

• Nuclear Strategy and National Style (1986)

• The Geopolitics of Super Power (1988)

• War, Peace, and Victory: Strategy and Statecraft for the Next Century (1990)

• House of Cards: Why Arms Control Must Fail (1992)

• The Leverage of Sea Power: The Strategic Advantage of Navies in War (1992)

• Weapons Don't Make War: Policy, Strategy and Technology (1993)

• The Navy in the Post-Cold War World (1994)

• Explorations in Strategy (1996)

• Modern Strategy (1999)

• The Second Nuclear Age (1999)

• Strategy for Chaos: Revolutions in Military Affairs & the Evidence of History (2002)

• The Sheriff: America's Defense of the New World Order (2004)

Dr Gray has published many articles in such journals as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Survival, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Wilson Quarterly, Washington Quarterly, The National Interest, and International Security.  He has lectured on defense and foreign affairs in Europe and North America, as well as in China, Israel and Australia. In 2005 he will publish Another Bloody Century:  Future Warfare.

Dr Gray is interested in the theory and practice of strategy, the dialogue between policy and military force, and in the utilization of historical experience for the education of policymakers.

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