Kelly Grieco

A Senior Fellow with the Reimagining US Grand Strategy Program at the Stimson Center, Dr. Kelly Grieco focuses on U.S. foreign policy and defense policy, addressing questions about military strategy, force structure, military alliances, air operations, and the future of war. 

She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University and a Nonresident Fellow at the Brute Krulak Center of the Marine Corps University. Her work has been published in Breaking Defense, Defense News, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, International Politics, Lawfare, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Parameters, Strategic Studies Quarterly, The Washington Quarterly, and War on the Rocks, among others. Prior to joining the Stimson Center, Grieco was a Senior Fellow with the New American Engagement Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and an Assistant Professor at the Air Command and Staff College. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.