Rhys Crawley

Dr Rhys Crawley is a senior lecturer in history at UNSW Canberra, and the author of the Official History of Australian Operations in Afghanistan, 2005‑2010. From 2016‑2023 Rhys was an historian at the Australian War Memorial. Prior to that, from 2010-2016, he worked at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Coral Bell School of Asia‑Pacific Affairs, at The Australian National University, where he was the principal researcher and co‑author of the multi‑volume Official History of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, and co‑author of volume 1 of the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian, and Post‑Cold War Operations. His books include Climax at Gallipoli: The Failure of the August Offensive (2014), The Secret Cold War: The Official History of ASIO, 1975‑1989 (2016), Intelligence and the Function of Government (2018), Gallipoli: New Perspectives on the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force 1915‑16 (2018), and The Long Search for Peace: Observer Missions and Beyond, 1947‑2006 (2019).