Gregory Copley Awarded High Australian Honor
Art
of Victory author honored for
contributions to strategic studies.
Gregory Copley
was invested with Membership in the Order of
Australia by the Governor-General of
Australia, at Government House, Canberra, on
September 14, 2007.
The Commonwealth
of Australia on June 11, 2007, announced in
the Queen�s Birthday Honours List, that it
had awarded The Art of Victory author
Gregory Copley the honor of Member of the
Order of Australia, one of the highest civil
honors it can bestow. Mr Copley was in
Canberra for meetings with the
Governor-General of Australia, Maj.-Gen.
Michael Jeffery, and with Chief of Army
Lt.-Gen. Peter Leahy, just before the
official announcement.
The investiture
of the honor � which carries the
post-nominal initials AM � was scheduled to
take place later in 2007, but the Order�s
citation indicated that the honor was being
given for Copley�s contributions to
international affairs and the study of
strategic philosophy. Mr Copley is an
Australian, but heads the Washington
DC-based International Strategic Studies
Association (ISSA). He helped establish
Australia�s strategic research center,
Future Directions International (FDI), and
remains a director and chairman of its
research committee. FDI is currently working
on a major strategic position paper for
Australia entitled Australia 2050, and Mr
Copley is directing the research and
analytical aspects of the study designed to
examine Australia�s strategic operating
environment and options through the first
half of the 21st Century.
He has in the
past received a number of national honors,
but this was the first from his native
country. His recent book, The Art of
Victory, was hailed as a significant
contribution to the study of grand strategy
philosophy.
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