Peter Garretson

This paper provides a policymaker's overview of a highly scalable, revolutionary, renewable energy technology, Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP), and evaluates it utility within the context of the Indo-US strategic partnership.

• Peter Garretson |
• 2010 |
• Occasional Papers

This paper makes an attempt to analyse and evaluate the US Department of Defence Acquisition System by highlighting the relationship of the requirements generation and budgeting process, the key actors,...

• Peter Garretson |
• January 2011 |
• Journal of Defence Studies

Let's face the facts: we are not going to regulate our way out of either climate change, or a peaking of fossil fuels. Even if we could imagine that individuals...

• Peter Garretson |
• November 2010 |
• Strategic Analysis

Security planners often grapple with the question of how far out they should be looking and planning, and it is not a problem to take lightly. Many believe that as...

• Peter Garretson |
• August 03, 2009 |
• IDSA Comments

Modern Nation States are complex systems that today suffer from the affliction of terrorism, which can attack its vital centers and connective tissue. Even as nation’s try to counter, terrorists...

• Peter Garretson |
• July-September 2009 |
• CBW Magazine

The recent publication and controversy over STRATFOR founder George Friedman's The Next 100 Years, with its forecasts of war and new space technology reminds us all to consider the value...

• Peter Garretson |
• May 26, 2009 |
• IDSA Comments

The idea is to launch giant orbiting solar collectors into space, where there is no night, and beam the power to receivers on the ground, where it is fed as...

• Peter Garretson |
• May 22, 2009 |
• IDSA Comments