American national-security maximalism can be self-defeating
If everything is a security threat, then nothing is
TO THE TECHNOCRATS who preside over America’s export rules, “national security” used to mean anything to do with weapons, particularly weapons of mass destruction. The technocrats’ job, and the purpose of the export rules to which they tended, was to prevent weapons and their components from reaching the hands of America’s enemies.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “From iPhones to aircraft carriers”
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