Lt. Col. Peter Garretson, USAF

Lieutenant Colonel Garretson (USAFA; Master of Aviation Human Factors, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) is an instructor of joint warfare at the US Air Force's Air Command and Staff College. He served two years as a strategy and policy adviser to the chief of staff of the Air Force on space, technology, energy, and US grand strategy, and two years as division chief for irregular warfare strategy and policy. Earlier, he spent 16 months as the first serving US officer on a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship at India's Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis where he researched innovative paths forward for US-India space cooperation. Prior to receiving his fellowship, he served four years in the US Air Force's Directorate of Strategic Planning as the chief of Air Force future technology and as deputy director for Air Force transformation, charged with looking 30-50 years into the future at the key trends and technologies that would shape conflict and statecraft. Lieutenant Colonel Garretson spent time at America's premier institutions of technical innovation as a service-chief-appointed intern to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and as a service academy research associate at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is senior pilot, winner of the National Space Society's Space Pioneer Award, and an award-winning author on air and space power strategy.  Lieutenant Colonel Garretson is an instructor of joint warfare at the US Air Force's Air Command and Staff College. He served two years as a strategy and policy adviser to the chief of staff of the Air Force on space, technology, energy, and US grand strategy, and two years as division chief for irregular warfare strategy and policy. Earlier, he spent 16 months as the first serving US officer on a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship at India's Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis where he researched innovative paths forward for US-India space cooperation. Prior to receiving his fellowship, he served four years in the US Air Force's Directorate of Strategic Planning as the chief of Air Force future technology and as deputy director for Air Force transformation, charged withlooking 30-50 years into the future at the key trends and technologies that would shape conflict and statecraft. Lieutenant Colonel Garretson spent time at America's premier institutions of technical innovation as a service-chief-appointed intern to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and as a service academy research associate at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is senior pilot, winner of the National Space Society's Space Pioneer Award, and an award-winning author on air and space power strategy.