Peter Garretson | |
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Allegiance | United States |
Service | United States Air Force |
Rank | Lieutenant colonel |
Commands | Space Horizons Research Task Force, Air Command and Staff College |
Peter Garretson (Lt Col-Ret., USAF), is a Senior Fellow in Defense Policy at the American Foreign Policy Council where he is co-director of AFPC's Space Strategy Initiative. [1] Garretson served as a United States Air Force officer and a writer on space policy and strategy. Garretson was also an instructor at Air University's Air Command and Staff College, where he leads the Space Horizons Research Task Force [2] and helped develop the Schriever Scholars program. He was previously Division Chief of Irregular Strategy, Plans and Policy. [3] Garretson served as a visiting fellow at India's premier strategic think tank, the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses as a Council on Foreign Relations international affairs fellow. [4] His team won the SECDEF/SECSTATE Diplomacy Development Defense D3 Innovation Challenge. [5] As of October 2018 [update] he is funded by the OSD MINERVA initiative to study contemporary great power attitudes toward space expansionism, territoriality, and resource nationalism. This research resulted in the book Scramble for the Skies: the Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space with Dr. Namrata Goswami. [6]