Peter Garretson (Lt Col-Ret., USAF), is a Senior Fellow in Defense Policy at the American Foreign Policy Council where is his 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 wass 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]
Peter Garretson | |
|---|---|
| Allegiance | United States |
| Service | United States Air Force |
| Rank | Lieutenant colonel |
| Commands | Space Horizons Research Task Force, Air Command and Staff College |
References
edit- ^ AFPC. Peter Garretson https://www.afpc.org/about/experts/peter-garretson
- ^ "Foreword by Peter Garretson". Developing-space.com. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
- ^ "Centauri Dreams: A Bill for a Starfaring Future". Vivdrewa.me. 9 December 2015. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
- ^ "Peter Garretson - Small Wars Journal". Smallwarsjournal.com. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
- ^ "NRL Space-Based Solar Power Concept Wins Secretary of Defense Innovative Challenge". Nrl.navy.mil. 11 March 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
- ^ Goswami, N. & Garretson, P. (2020). Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space. Rowman and Littlefield. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498583138/Scramble-for-the-Skies-The-Great-Power-Competition-to-Control-the-Resources-of-Outer-Space
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