National Security Scholar

Roy Godson

1 article 2012

Roy Godson is a professor of government at Georgetown University and a leading scholar on intelligence, counterintelligence, and national security strategy. He has authored and edited numerous books on security issues and political influence operations. He contributed to The Weekly Standard with analysis on the spectrum of power in international relations.

Between Hard Power and Soft

February 6, 2012 · Roy Godson, Magazine, Foreign Policy

As troops come home from Iraq and we draw down forces in Afghanistan, there is little reason to breathe the sigh of relief that should accompany the end of conflict. American troops are being drawn down in a region whose political actors include extreme jihadists and Salafists, dangerously armed…