Colin S. Gray (December 29, 1943 – February 27, 2020) was a British-American writer on geopolitics and professor of
International Relations and
Strategic Studies at the
University of Reading, where he was the director of the Centre for Strategic Studies.[1] In addition, he was a Senior Associate to the National Institute for Public Policy.
Gray was criticized by Alex Marshall of the University of Glasgow for his attempt to elevate
Harry S. Truman's reputation to "a level of adulation far higher than the historical record could ever objectively sustain", as well as for Gray's silence on Truman's intellectual mediocrity and role in bringing about the
Cold War.[4]
Bibliography
Canadian Defence Policy: A Question of Priorities (
Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1972).
Gray, Colin S. (2011). "Harry S. Truman and the forming of American grand strategy in the Cold War, 1945–1953". In
Murray, Williamson; Sinnreich, Richard Hart; Lacey, James (eds.). The Shaping of Grand Strategy: Policy, Diplomacy and War. New York:
Cambridge University Press.
ISBN978-0-521-76126-0.
Marshall, Alex (2012). "The Shaping of Grand Strategy: Policy, Diplomacy and War. Edited by Williamson Murray, Richard Hart Sinnreich and James Lacey". History. 97 (326): 290–291.
doi:
10.1111/j.1468-229X.2012.00554_2.x.