Andrew Barrett Godefroy is a Canadian strategic analyst and science and technology historian.

Early life and education

Andrew Godefroy was born in

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, and attended

Concordia University Concordia University () is a Public university, public English-language research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College (Montreal), Loyola College and Sir George Williams Universit ...

, where he studied Canadian military history. His undergraduate thesis was a study of executions of Canadian soldiers for military crimes in the First World War. He completed a Master's degree and a PhD in War Studies at the

Royal Military College of Canada The Royal Military College of Canada (), abbreviated in English as RMC and in French as CMR, is a Military academy#Canada, military academy and, since 1959, a List of universities in Canada#Ontario, degree-granting university of the Canadian ...

. His graduate and post-graduate studies focused on aerospace history and the Canadian rocketry and space program. Godefroy is also an officer in the

Canadian Army The Canadian Army () is the command (military formation), command responsible for the operational readiness of the conventional ground forces of the Canadian Armed Forces. It maintains regular forces units at bases across Canada, and is also re ...

. Godefroy held the Canadian Visiting Research Fellowship in the Changing Character of Warfare Programme at the

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in 2009. His research focused on change in the British, American, and Canadian armies since the

Cold War The Cold War was a period of global Geopolitics, geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 unt ...

period.

Publications

Godefroy's first book, a study of the death penalty in the

Canadian Expeditionary Force The Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF; French: ''Corps expéditionnaire canadien'') was the expeditionary warfare, expeditionary field force of Canada during the First World War. It was formed on August 15, 1914, following United Kingdom declarat ...

, was published in 1998. His doctoral dissertation examined the origins and evolution of Canada's defence space program. His post-graduate dissertation examined defence innovation among the main Western allies, specifically America, Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (ABCANZ).

Books

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Selected book chapters

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Godefroy, Andrew Canadian Army officers 20th-century Canadian historians 21st-century Canadian historians Canadian military historians Canadian male non-fiction writers Concordia University alumni Writers from Montreal Royal Military College of Canada alumni Historians of World War I Living people 1972 births Military personnel from Montreal 20th-century Canadian military personnel