Paul Dickson

Paul Dickson is a Strategic Analyst with the Centre for Operational Research and Analysis, currently attached to the Air Force Directorate of Air Strategic Plans at the Department of National Defence. He has degrees in history from Acadia University and obtained a PhD in military history from the University of Guelph. He was a Department of National Defence Postdoctoral Fellow at the Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies and a SSHRC Postdoctoral fellow at York University. He taught Canadian, Military, European and British history at Wilfrid Laurier University, Acadia University, the University of Guelph and Queen’s University’s International Study Centre in Sussex, in the United Kingdom, where he was also Assistant to Academic Director for five years, and where he led a number of First and Second World War battlefield tours. In 2003, he was a Military History Summer Fellow at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His most recent publications include A Thoroughly Canadian General: A Biography of General H.D.G. Crerar (2007) which was awarded the 2008 C.P. Stacey Award for the best book in Canadian Military History published in 2006 and 2007.  Paul also has chapters in the following books: Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment (2007), Leadership and Responsibility During the Second World War (MQUP); as well articles in Canadian Military History,The Journal of Military History, War and Society, and The Quarterly Journal of Military History. His research interests include military leadership and professionalism, civil-military relations and the development and employment of airpower.

Work: 613-992-4900

Dickson.P@forces.gc.ca