Andrew Godefroy
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Andrew Godefroy, CD, M.A., Ph.D. (born 1972) is a strategic analyst and historian who specializes in leadership, innovation, science, technology, and operational design and analysis. He is well known for his work on technology and culture, the Canadian space program, and Canadian strategic studies and military history.
Dr. Godefroy has extensive international professional and academic experience, and has worked with many organizations including NATO, the Department of National Defence, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and the Canadian Space Agency. He has lectured at Canadian Forces College Toronto as well as the Royal Military College of Canada, where he is a member of the adjunct faculty. Andrew's current research interests focus on technological and cultural innovation, and he is exploring this phenomenon through a number of fields including strategic studies, history, politics, and science, technology, and society.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Andrew Godefroy is a graduate of Loyola College Campus, Concordia University and the Royal Military College of Canada (where he received his M.A. and Ph.D.). His graduate work examined U.S.-Canada cooperation in space and missile defence programs, while his post-graduate dissertation work examined the nature of defence innovation, using the genesis and evolution of Canada's rocket and space program as his case study. He was the first person in Canada to declassify and examine several of the earliest records on Canadian post-war rocketry, upper atmospheric, and space research during the completion of his doctorate. His subsequent publication of this research initiated a fundamental reassessment of Canada's role in outer space since the advent of the space age.
In addition to his study of technological innovation through space, Dr. Godefroy has examined cultural innovation through a number of historical case studies concerning Canada's military. Researching both success and failure in the military's organizational decision making process, he has published on a wide variety of subjects including conceptual and doctrinal design, military justice and law, leadership, and operational planning.
Dr. Godefroy is a recipient of the Canadian Forces Decoration, the Chief of Land Staff Commendation, the Canadian Battlefields Foundation award, as well as several Security and Defence Forum scholarships.
Andrew is well published author and commentator on Canadian strategic studies and military history, and is often consulted as a subject matter expert for print, media, and television. Below is a select biography of his many publications.
[edit] Books
For Freedom and Honour? The Story of 25 Canadians Executed During the Great War (Ottawa: CEF Books, 1998) ISBN 1-896979-22-X
Maple Leaf in Orbit: An Official History of the Canadian Space Program, 1945-1995 (St. Hubert: Canadian Space Agency, 2007)
[edit] Book Chapters
“Orbital Asset or Overhead Menace? Space Power and Special Operations”, in LCol. David Last, Ed. Choice of Force: Special Operations for Canada, (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005), 205-218.
“An Overview of Fictional Writing and the Canadian Army of the Future”, in DND. Crisis in Zefra. (Kingston: Directorate of Land Concepts and Doctrine, 2005), 127-134.
“The Intangible Defence: Canada’s Militarization and Weaponization of Space”, in LCol. Bernd Horn, Ed. The Canadian Way of War. (Toronto: Dundurn Group, 2006), 327-357.
“Canadian Military Effectiveness in the First World War”, in LCol. Bernd Horn, Ed. The Canadian Way of War. (Toronto: Dundurn Group, 2006), 169-194.
“Trenches Should Never Be Saved: The 4th Canadian Division at Vimy Ridge”, in Geoffrey Hayes et. Al. eds. Vimy Ridge: A Reassessment. (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007), 211-224.
“The German Army at Vimy Ridge”, in Geoffrey Hayes et. Al. eds. Vimy Ridge: A Reassessment. (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007), 225-238.
(With Peter Gizewski) “Force Requirements (Land)”, in Brian MacDonald ed. Vimy Papers 2007 – Canada and Arctic Security. Ottawa: CDAI Press, 2007. (ISBN 978-0-9698881-6-1).
“Portrait of a Battalion Commander: Lieutenant Colonel George Stuart Tuxford at the Second Battle of Ypres, April 1915”, in Colonel Bernd Horn ed. Intrepid Warriors: Perspectives on Canadian Military Leaders. (Kingston and Toronto: CDA Press and Dundurn Group, 2007), 59-74.
“Daring Innovation: The Canadian Corps and Trench Raiding on the Western Front”, in LCol. Bernd Horn, ed. Show No Fear: Daring Actions in Canadian Military History. (Toronto: Dundurn Group, 2008).
[edit] Scholarly/Academic Articles
“A Lesson in Success: The Calonne Trench Raid, January 17th, 1917”, Canadian Military History. Vol. 8 No.2 (Spring 1999): pp.25-34.
“Is the Sky Falling? Canada’s Defence Space Program at the Crossroads”, Canadian Military Journal Vol.1: 2 (Summer 2000), 53-60.
“Enter the Draco: An Emerging Space Power in China”, Strategic Datalink, Toronto: CISS, 2001.
“The Canadian Armed Forces Advisory Training Team Tanzania”. Canadian Military History. Vol.11:3 (Summer 2002), 31-48.
“Canada’s Early Space Policy Development, 1958-1974”, Space Policy, Vol.19:3 (August 2003), 137-141.
“Cooperation or Security? The Emergence of Space Programs in Latin America”, JBIS, Vol.56 No.11/12 (Nov/Dec 2003), 405-416.
"Chasing the Silver Bullet: The Evolution of Capability Development in the Canadian Army", Canadian Military Journal, Vol.8:1 (Spring 2007), 53-66.
"For Queen, King, and Empire: Canadians Recruited into the British Army, 1858-1944" Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research (forthcoming).
