These advocates tend to be less than sensitive, to put it charitably, to the potential national security risks associatedwith putting their philosophy into practice.
It also increases exponentially the dangers associatedwith his policy of "engaging" rogue states, a practice that is simply affording them time to buy ever-more-advanced and -deadly weapons from Moscow.
The minister confirmed that there will be numbers and targets associatedwith the scheme which will be announced before the end of the calendar month and that sharing best practice will be key in the delivery of the programme.
In practice, it is predictable that the result of this policy will be that manufacturing jobs associatedwith presently controlled technologies will move offshore, where production can take place at lower cost.