Kelly 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. 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. Dr. Grieco received her PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was an affiliate of the Security Studies Program, and AB in Government from Dartmouth College.
