Author Archive

Christopher P. Costa

Adjunct Associate Professor, Georgetown University

Christopher P. Costa is a member of The Soufan Center board of directors and an adjunct associate professor with Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program, Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is a former career intelligence officer and was special assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council from 2017 to 2018.
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To foster regional security, forge a long-term counterterrorism partnership with Iraq

In a remarkably complex situation, it’s a hedge worth building.

  • Christopher P. Costa
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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.

  • Kevin Bilms and Christopher P. Costa
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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.

  • Christopher P. Costa and Joshua A. Geltzer
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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.

  • Christopher P. Costa and Joshua A. Geltzer
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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