Peter Archambault
Directorate of Defence Analysis, Department of National Defence
Author Biography
Peter Archambault, Directorate of Defence Analysis, Department of National Defence
Peter Archambault holds a BA and MA from the University of New Brunswick, and received his PhD in Military History from the University of Calgary in 1997. Between 1998 and 2002, he was Director of Research for the Minister’s Monitoring Committee on Change in the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces (MMC).
Among his other duties, he assisted the Chairman, the Honourable John A. Fraser, in his role as Special Advisor to the Minister on Land Force Reserve Restructure. In 2000, that advice was presented in the report In Service of the Nation: Canada’s Citizen Soldiers in the 21st Century.
Since July 2002, Dr, Archambault has been employed as a Defence Scientist in the Directorate of Strategic Analysis at National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa. Since 1998, he has been an Adjunct Associate Professor of War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada.
In 2002, Dr, Archambault was awarded the Golden Jubilee Medal for his efforts on behalf of Canada’s military