Godwin Sule (died 11 March 1979) was a high-ranking Sudanese-born Ugandan military officer who held important commands in the Uganda Army during the dictatorship of President Idi Amin.

Regarded as one of the most talented soldiers in the Uganda Army during Amin's rule, Sule was tasked with leading the last major Ugandan counter-offensive during the Uganda–Tanzania War of 1978–79.

[7] In that year, he and Air Force quartermaster Zeddy Maruru were sent to Europe by President Amin to assess the state of Uganda's embassies and the living situation of Ugandan exchange students.

[10] He was not present at the facility during Operation Entebbe—a nighttime Israeli attack which destroyed a significant portion of the Uganda Army Air Force—having left early to meet a female companion at Lake Victoria Hotel.

Uganda Army Chief of Staff Mustafa Adrisi reportedly wanted to incarcerate or execute Sule for his lapse in responsibility, but his closeness to Amin guaranteed his safety.

[13] After an initial Ugandan invasion of Tanzanian territory was defeated,[14] the Tanzania People's Defence Force (TPDF) launched a counter-invasion and overran the border town of Mutukula on 21–22 January 1979.

This information was received badly by the local troops; Sule sensed that the soldiers could possibly revolt and instructed Lupayi to order the reinforcements to advance so that they could relieve Rwehururu's men.

[17] In an attempt to reverse the Tanzanian victories, Amin placed Sule in charge of a large-scale counter-offensive that included Ugandan units as well as allied Libyan and Palestine Liberation Organisation forces.

[24] When another Ugandan commander at Lukaya, Abdu Kisuule, could not determine Sule's whereabouts, he asked Amin to instruct soldiers to look for his corpse among the bodies brought back to Kampala.

[19] Lieutenant Muzamir Amule dismissed these claims and supported the assertion that Sule was crushed by one of his tanks, and that this was not understood until the day after the battle.