Author Archive
Christopher P. Costa
Christopher P. Costa is executive director of the International Spy Museum and a retired U.S. Army colonel. He served in the first year of the Trump administration as the special assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council.
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Look at Great Power Competition Through a Special Operations Lens
Most of this competition is far short of combat, which makes the principles and expertise of SOF keenly relevant.
- Christopher P. Costa and Kevin Bilms
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We Must Continue Fighting Terrorism as Relentlessly as the Coronavirus
There’s no miracle drug for stopping terrorism. It is controllable, but never curable.
- Christopher P. Costa
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To Fight Disinformation, Rethink Counterintelligence
For too long, the focus of U.S. counterintelligence has been safeguarding government secrets and corporate intellectual property.
- Joshua A. Geltzer and Christopher P. Costa
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DHS’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Reflects Professionalism, Not Politics
The counterterrorism experts who oversaw the Obama-Trump policy transition applaud the new strategy’s bold approach to domestic terrorism and guns.
- Joshua A. Geltzer and Christopher P. Costa
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Counterterrorism in the Era of Great-Power Competition
A former Trump administration counterterrorism leader explains what’s changed since Obama, and what ought to come next.
- Christopher P. Costa