By Dr Rhys Crawley

Books

Londey P; Crawley R; Horner D, 2019, The long search for peace: Volume 1, The official history of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and post-cold war operations: Observer missions and beyond, 1947-2006, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108628938

Blaxland J; Crawley R, 2017, The Secret Cold War The Official History of ASIO, 1975-1989

Crawley R, 2014, Climax at Gallipoli The Failure of the August Offensive, University of Oklahoma Press

Book Chapters

Crawley R; Pratten G, 2025, '‘Everybody doing their thing’: coalition warfare in southern Afghanistan, 2006–10', in Beaumont J; Pratten G (ed.), Military History Supremo: Essays in Honour of David Horner AM FASSA, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 217 - 247, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/MHS.2025

Crawley R, 2025, 'Organising for operations: case studies from the Australian Defence Force's Afghanistan commitments, 2005-2006', in Blaxland J (ed.), Mobilising the Australian Army: Contingencies and Compromises Over More than a Century, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, pp. 368 - 386, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009565257

Crawley R, 2021, 'Egan, Clyde Joseina (1917–1993)', in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19 1991-1995 (a-Z), ANU Press, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/egan-clyde-joseina-18060

Horner D; Londey P; Crawley R, 2019, ''Tough men wanted': Australian military observers in Kashmir, 1951-71', in The Long Search for Peace: Volume 1, The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations Observer Missions and Beyond, 1947-2006, Cambridge University Press, pp. 185 - 218

Crawley R, 2019, 'A 'lop-sided' umpire: Australian military observers in Kashmir, 1971-85', in The Long Search for Peace: Volume 1, The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations Observer Missions and Beyond, 1947-2006, Cambridge University Press, pp. 424 - 452

Winter C; Crawley R, 2019, 'A reluctant start: The road to Cyprus, 1964', in The Long Search for Peace: Volume 1, The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations Observer Missions and Beyond, 1947-2006, Cambridge University Press, pp. 318 - 346

Crawley R, 2019, 'A sustained commitment: AUSTCIVPOL in Cyprus, 1976-2006', in The Long Search for Peace: Volume 1, The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations Observer Missions and Beyond, 1947-2006, Cambridge University Press, pp. 717 - 750

Crawley R, 2019, 'An island divided: AUSTCIVPOL in Cyprus, 1974-76', in The Long Search for Peace: Volume 1, The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations Observer Missions and Beyond, 1947-2006, Cambridge University Press, pp. 482 - 504

Crawley R, 2019, 'Service in the Sinai: Australia and the MFO, 1993-2006', in The Long Search for Peace: Volume 1, The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations Observer Missions and Beyond, 1947-2006, Cambridge University Press, pp. 779 - 813

Crawley R, 2019, 'Snow Goose and the Milk Run: RAAF transport support for UNMOGIP, 1975-78', in The Long Search for Peace: Volume 1, The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations Observer Missions and Beyond, 1947-2006, Cambridge University Press, pp. 453 - 481

Crawley R, 2019, 'The first decade: Australian police in Cyprus, 1964-74', in The Long Search for Peace: Volume 1, The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations Observer Missions and Beyond, 1947-2006, Cambridge University Press, pp. 347 - 377

Razi W; Goodman J, 2019, 'Afghanistan: Military occupation, violence and ethnocracy', in Violence in South Asia Contemporary Perspectives, pp. 177 - 191, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429316845-12

Crawley R, 2018, '‘Shaping Operations: General Headquarters and the Gallipoli Campaign’', in Crawley R; LoCicero M (ed.), Gallipoli New Perspectives on the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 1915-16, Helion & Company, United Kingdom, pp. 193 - 220

Blaxland J; Crawley R, 2018, 'A history of the Australian intelligence community', in Intelligence and the Function of Government, Mup Academic, pp. 37 - 58

Crawley R; Dean P, 2018, 'Strategy and Sustainment: A Century of Australian Amphibious Operations in the Asia-Pacific', in New Interpretations in Naval History Selected Papers from the Eighteenth McMullen Naval History Symposium Held at the United States Naval Academy 19-20 September 2013, Naval War College Press, Newport

Crawley R; Ford SB, 2018, 'The state of Intelligence Studies: Australia in international context', in Intelligence and the Function of Government, Mup Academic, pp. 13 - 36

Crawley R, 2017, 'Marching to the beat of an imperial drum: contextualising Australia’s military effort during the First World War', in The British Empire and the First World War, Routledge, pp. 125 - 141

Crawley R, 2016, '“Backs to the wall”: Australians on the Western Front, January-June 1918', in The AIF in Battle How the Australian Imperial Force Fought, 1914-1918, Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Crawley R; Dean PJ, 2016, 'Amphibious Warfare: Training and Logistics, 1942-1945', in Australia 1944-45 Victory in the Pacific, Cambridge University Press, pp. 257 - 277

Crawley R, 2015, 'The Dardanelles as a Joint Operation', in The War at Sea Proceedings of the King-Hall Naval History Conference 2013: 1914-18, Sea Power Centre – Australia, Canberra, pp. 95 - 102

Crawley R, 2015, 'Australia’s Cold War Frontline: ASIO in Papua New Guinea, 1962-1975', in The Protest Years The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975, Allen & Unwin, pp. 289 - 314

Crawley R, 2014, 'Protecting the identity of ASIO agents: The case of Mercia Masson', in The Spy Catchers The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963, Allen & Unwin, pp. 563 - 580

Crawley R, 2014, 'Eye in the sky: the Royal Naval Air Service', in Gallipoli History, Memory and National Imagination, Istanbul Medeniyet Universitesi, Istanbul, pp. 67 - 78

Crawley R, 2013, 'Commanding Combined and Joint Operations: The Gallipoli Model', in Joint and combined operations in the history of warfare, Ministry of Defense, Rome, pp. 342 - 348, https://www.icmh-cihm.org/en/component/remository/func-startdown/83/lang,en-gb/?Itemid=127

Crawley R, 2013, 'Supplying the offensive: the role of Allied logistics', in Gallipoli A Ridge Too Far, Exisle Publishing, Sydney, pp. 254 - 271

Crawley R, 2010, 'The myths of August at Gallipoli', in Zombie Myths of Australian Military History, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 50 - 69

Edited Books

Crawley R; Chambers S; Brown A, (eds.), 2025, Inside GHQ: The Gallipoli Diary of Captain Orlo Williams, Little Gully Publishing, Mosman, https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/0645927694?dib_tag=se&_encoding=UTF8&ref_=as_li_ss_tl&language=en_GB&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.fCXxzvG-HvUCgwKZVVa8UQ.ZZFMmvVCZH0ubFPjVNMrhnqPQEI4BsIRJ3iMo2_EBeE&sr=8-1&linkCode=gs2&linkId=670df8770c08a282f2919eb63fa93c0d&tag=littlegullypu-22

Crawley R; LoCicero M, (ed.), 2018, Gallipoli: New Perspectives on the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 1915-16, Helion & Company, United Kingdom, https://www.helion.co.uk/gallipoli-new-perspectives-on-the-mediterranean-expeditionary-force-1915-16.html

Baldino D; Crawley R, (ed.), 2018, Intelligence and the Function of Government, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, https://www.mup.com.au/books/intelligence-and-the-function-of-government-paperback-softback#:~:text=guarantees%20good%20policy.-,This%20book%20draws%20on%20a%20wide%20range%20experts%20including%20academics,the%20central%20foundations%20and%20frameworks

Journal articles

Crawley R, 2023, 'Supplies Over the Shore', Australian Army Journal, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.61451/225853

Crawley R, 2020, 'Australia’s First Spies: The Remarkable Story of Australia’s Intelligence Operations, 1901–45', Australian Historical Studies, 51, pp. 99 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2020.1703239

Crawley R, 2019, 'Australia's Lessons', Parameters, 49, pp. 49 - 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.55540/0031-1723.3119

Crawley R, 2015, 'Marching to the beat of an imperial drum: Contextualising Australia's military effort during the First World War', Australian Historical Studies, 46, pp. 64 - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2014.994540

Crawley R, 2014, 'Sustaining Amphibious Operations in the Asia-Pacific: Logistic Lessons for Australia, 1914-2014', Australian Defence Force Journal: journal of the Australian profession of arms, pp. 28 - 39

Conference Presentations

Crawley R, 2025, 'Inside GHQ: The Gallipoli Diary of Captain Orlo Williams', presented at Gallipoli Association Online Conference, 12 July 2025

Crawley R, 2024, 'Official History in Australia', presented at IHR Seminar Series: Official History, Past, Present and Future, University of London, 11 December 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPnRdHtsWEU

Crawley R, 2024, 'Producing Official History', presented at Leiden University/Netherlands Defence Academy intelligence studies research group, The Hague, 02 December 2024

Crawley R, 2024, 'Navigating the 20 years of US/NATO intervention/war in Afghanistan', presented at NIOD-NIMH Afghanistan Experts meeting, Istanbul, 08 November 2024 - 09 November 2024, https://nederlandafghanistan.org/en/artikelen/expert-meeting-in-istanbul/

Crawley R, 2024, 'Reflecting on the challenges of writing an official history of Australian operations in Afghanistan', presented at 32nd Annual Conference, British International History Group, London, 05 September 2024 - 06 September 2024

Crawley R, 2024, 'ASIO and Cold War Counter Espionage', presented at Game of Dominos, Military History and Heritage Victoria, Melbourne, 13 April 2024

Crawley R, 2023, 'Gallipoli: Sustainment from the Sea', presented at In Brown and Green Waters: Australian Army Operations in the Littoral. Chief of Army History Conference, Canberra, 16 November 2023

Crawley R, 2023, 'Lessons from the Australian Official History', presented at NIOD-NIMH Afghanistan Experts meeting, Amsterdam, 28 September 2023 - 29 August 2023, https://nederlandafghanistan.org/en/artikelen/international-expert-meeting-in-amsterdam/

Crawley R, 2022, 'The Gallipoli Campaign: An Australian Perspective', presented at Gallipoli Revisited: International Conference of the United Service Institution of India and the Indian Council of World Affairs, Online, 22 April 2022

Crawley R, 2021, 'Mobilising for war: case studies from the ADF’s Afghanistan commitments, 2005-2006', presented at Contingencies and compromises: mobilising the Australian Army, Online, 10 November 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2QMCXUGk24

Crawley R, 2019, 'Find, file, write: Working on the Official History of Australian Operations in Afghanistan', presented at The War in Afghanistan as an Historiographical Challenge: An International Survey, Potsdam, 28 November 2019

Crawley R, 2019, 'Amphibious logistics 1944-45', presented at Royal Australian Navy King-Hall Naval History Conference, Sydney, 08 October 2019

Crawley R, 2019, 'Baptism of fire: CH-47 operations in Afghanistan', presented at Australian Army Aviation Corps conference, Brisbane, 07 August 2019

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