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6 documents for strategic defence initiative sdi

- Don't Listen to the Merchants of Scientific Doubt
...President Ronald Reagan's 1983 Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI or Star Wars), the authors...
- Winnipeg Free Press
- June 28, 2010
- Canada, strategic defence, and strategic stability: a retrospective and look ahead.
... research on a strategic defence initiative. A sophisticated BMD, SDI examined the feasibility...
- International Journal
- Vol. 63 Nbr. 4, September 2008
- Thinking about a 'known unkown': US strategy and the past, present, and future implications of strategic defence.
... War and Reagan's strategic defense initiative (SDI). Rather, ballistic missile defence as strate...
- International Journal
- Vol. 63 Nbr. 4, September 2008

- Canada, a land of deep ambivalence: understanding the Divergent response to US primacy after 9/11.
...In a broader strategic context Ottawa has rejected US pressures to suppor... support for the mission, the Chief of the Defence Staff, Gen. Rick Hillier, waged an unusually activ... virtues of such human security initiatives was their very low cost: training judges or police...
- Canadian-American Public Policy
- Nbr. 2006, January 2006
- Defence Dilemmas: Continental Defence Cooperation, From Bomarc to Bmd
Canadian governments periodically find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place on continental defence issues, facing pressure from the United States to support a controversial new initiative, and the expectation of substantial opposition at home. The conventional wisdom is that the decision to tilt one way or the other is ultimately a matter of political leadership. Bold and effective prime ministers are quick to say "yes" or "no" as they see fit. Weak prime ministers try to put off a decision, and ultimately cave in to public pressure in a way that aggravates the Americans. But a closer look suggests that the crucial factor might be the "solidity" of the prime minister's political footing. Delay, dissembling, and domestic grandstanding may be perfectly rational strategies for ...

... no" to Canadian participation in the Strategic Defense Initiative in 1985. What Martin had done o...
- Canadian Foreign Policy
- Vol. 15 Nbr. 1, April 2009
- Ronald Reagan: an American Christian.
.... This was the so-called Strategic Defence Initiative, parodied by opponents of Reaga...
- Catholic Insight
- Vol. 12 Nbr. 9, October 2004