Episode 29: The Next Generation of Air Warfare

What does the war in Ukraine tell us about the future of air warfare? Join our host, Connor Thode, and Stimson Center Senior Fellow Dr. Kelly Grieco as they discuss what Ukraine can teach us about emerging airpower strategies. Listeners can learn more about Dr. Grieco and her work by reading the Atlantic Council’s series “Airpower after Ukraine: The future of air warfare” (available here).

About the Guest

Kelly A. Grieco is a Senior Fellow with the Reimagining US Grand Strategy Program at the Stimson Center, where her work focuses on US foreign policy and defense policy, addressing questions about military strategy, force structure, military alliances, air operations, and the future of war. She has expertise in U.S. military alliances and the security architectures of the Indo-Pacific and Europe, as well as current and emerging airpower strategies and capabilities, including air denial and drone warfare. 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. In 2024, she received the Christopher Coker Prize for best paper in the field of security studies for her co-authored article “Can Drones Coerce?” published in International Politics.  

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 has held fellowships from the MIT Center for International Studies, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Tobin Project, and participated in the German Marshall Fund’s Young Strategists Forum. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Views expressed are personal and do not represent the views of GSSR or any other entity.