| Peter Garretson | |
| Allegiance: | United States |
| Branch: | 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 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] 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 with Dr. Namrata Goswami.[6]