The Proper ITAR Focus

Berin Szoka is giving a talk on reforming ITAR, and makes the useful points that it will do no good to attempt to persuade someone on the basis that it’s bad for business, or impeding the development of space. They won’t care. ITAR is about national security, and any arguments against it must use ju jitsu–those defending it must be convinced that ITAR, as currently constituted, actually damages our national security. Fortunately, this is a case that can be made, and must.