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Gwynne Dyer, Ph.D , MA , BA (born April 17, 1943) is a London-based independent Canadian journalist, syndicated columnist and military historian. He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and joined the Royal Canadian Navy at the age of sixteen. While still in the navy, he obtained a BA in History from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1963; an MA in Military History from Rice University, Houston, Texas, in 1966; and a Ph.D in Military and Middle Eastern History at King's College London in 1973. Dyer served in the Canadian, American and British navies. He was employed as a Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, 1973-77. In 1973 he began writing articles for leading London newspapers on the Arab-Israeli conflict, and soon decided to abandon academic life for a full-time career in journalism. His twice-weekly column on international affairs is published by 175 papers in 45 countries and is translated into more than a dozen languages. Views and Criticism While he supported the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan to remove the Taliban, Dyer has been a vocal critic of the American-led invasion of Iraq and the Republican administration responsible for what he sees as a major miscalculation in the "war on terror". Dyer argues that the Iraq invasion actually played into the hands of the growing Islamist movement in the Middle East, since it pre-emptively targeted a clearly secular government with no proven links to Al Qaeda. For these views and others, Dyer has, predictably, been labelled 'anti-American' by apologists for the Bush government. Likewise, Dyer's unabashed criticism of Israeli foreign policy, particularly that of Ariel Sharon and the Likud party, has raised the ire of pro-Israeli lobby groups in the U.S. and elsewhere, resulting in attempts to have his column censured from the public record. Dyer's column was the subject of a blacklist by two of Canada's largest newspaper conglomerates, Canwest Global and Hollinger International (formerly owned by Conrad Black), with the result that despite being one of Canada's foremost foreign policy experts, Dyer's column has recently been available only in a few remaining independently owned newspapers in his native country.
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