Gabriel Wilfrid Stephen Brodsky (born 19 November 1933) is a research scholar and author in Literature of War and in Joseph Conrad studies.

Formerly a career soldier, he joined the Canadian Army Reserves in 1949, aged fifteen, as a boy drummer.

He subsequently served 1951–83 in regular army paratroop and conventional units of the Canadian Infantry, retiring in the rank of major.

He saw tours of duty with NATO in West Germany, as a UN Peacekeeper in Cyprus and Kashmir, and as an instructor of officers.

[5] A former trustee of the Joseph Conrad Society of America (2012–14),[6] Brodsky writes and publishes literary criticism and reviews.