Kelly A. Grieco, PhD, is a resident Senior Fellow with the New American Engagement Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor of Military and Security Studies in the Department of International Security at the Air Command and Staff College. Her work focuses on US foreign and defense policy, addressing questions about US grand strategy and military force structure, strategic competition, military alliances, air and space operations, and the future of war.  She received her PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was an affiliate of the Security Studies Program.