Peter Garretson

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]

Peter Garretson
Allegiance	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Rank	Lieutenant colonel
Commands	Space Horizons Research Task Force, Air Command and Staff College