Xenia Wickett served as a Foreign Affairs Specialist and her major portfolios included counterterrorism (a government's plan to use the instruments of national power to neutralize terrorists).
Prior to her NSC post, Wickett served as a Foreign Affairs Specialist in the Bureau of South Asia at the Department of State. Her major portfolios included counterterrorism, nonproliferation, Kashmir, and other law enforcement topics. Counter-terrorism strategy is a government's plan to use the instruments of national power to neutralize terrorists, their organizations, and their networks in order to render them incapable of using violence to instill fear and to coerce the government or its citizens to react in accordance with the terrorists' goals. 
