The Canadian American Strategic Review was an influential

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that comments on Canadian Defence and sovereignty issues. The think-tank operated, for many years, from the campus of

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. It shut down in 2016.

History

In 2007 the '' Canwest News Services'' cited one of the think-tank's papers on the option of employing Canadian Forces smaller CH-146 Griffon helicopters to Afghanistan. In 2008 the

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's '' International Law Studies'' cited one of the think-tank's papers on

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's 2005 change in Defence policy. In 2009 Peter Worthington cited one of the review's papers that statistically analyzed the safety of the vehicles the

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used in

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. In 2016, Steven Chase repeatedly quoted the Review's Stephen Priestley when ''

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'' reported on how

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used Canadian made light armored vehicles in ways that violated their export license. The reporting raised questions about a new Saudi order for an additional $15 billion order. Nominally the vehicles were purchased for Saudi Arabia's National Guard, but news footage showed them being used by the Saudi army's expeditionary force, against rebel forces in Yemen, a violation of the export license. The group's website was officially closed down on 31 December 2016. In her bibliography of ''Polar Imperative: A History of Arctic Sovereignty in North America'', Shelagh D. Grant described the think tank as one of two sources of "particular significance".

References

{{cite news , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=S7EOAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Canadian+American+Strategic+Review%22 , title = International Law Studies, Volume 84 , publisher =

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, year = 2008 , page = 96 , accessdate = 2013-09-17 , quote = The measures announced by Prime Minister Harper were those contained in the "Canada First" defense plan of the Conservative Party during the 2005-2006 election campaign. For the details of the measure see Dianne DeMille & Stephen Priestley, Stephen Harper announces the new defence policy put forward by the Conservative Party of Canada...

External links

Official Site
(Archived) Think tanks based in Canada Simon Fraser University Former education in British Columbia