Peter Huessy is Senior Fellow at the National Institute for Deterrence Studies (NIDS), Senior Fellow at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, and President of his own defense consulting firm, Geostrategic Analysis. He is the author of a weekly nuclear-focused report The ICBM Ear and has prepared the report since 1981.

He also writes regularly for Real Clear Defense, Maven Warrior and Global Security Review. He is an occasional guest on the California based David Sussman radio show and is a regular guest on the CBS radio “Eye on the World” with John Batchelor as well as with Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio.

Previously, for 21 years he was the Senior Defense Consultant at the National Defense University Foundation. He was also a National Security Fellow at the AFPC, and Senior Defense Consultant at the Air Force Association, while a senior fellow at JINSA as well.

Since 1983, Huessy has hosted over 1250 Congressional seminars on Capitol Hill dealing with matters including missile defense, strategic nuclear modernization, strategic deterrence, strategic airlift, strategic bombers, space, proliferation, and arms control.

He has also served from 1981-2022 as Chief Consultant to a group of associated contractors in the nuclear deterrence business. With General Russ Dougherty in 1982, he started visiting U.S. military bases to consult and lecture on strategic issues, as well as provide reports about the state of the US military. And until 2017 he was the Chief Consultant to the Missile Defense Information Group which he established in 1992.

He has lectured on nuclear deterrent issues at various professional schools and institutions in the D.C. area including Johns Hopkins, the U.S. War College, the Joint Military Intelligence College, the Institute of World Politics and Georgetown University. For seven years he regularly taught as a guest professor at the US Naval Academy about the history of US Nuclear Policy.

He was awarded a Meritorious Achievement Award by the National Defense Industrial Association in 2009.

His expertise covers missile defense, nuclear deterrence, arms control, proliferation, as well as tactical and strategic air, airlift, space and nuclear matters including terrorism, counter-terrorism, immigration, state-sponsored terrorism, and such state and non-state actors as North Korea, China, Iran, Venezuela and Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda.

His specialty is developing and implementing public policy campaigns to secure support for important national security objectives.

For many years he regularly wrote op-eds for The Washington Times, and occasionally writes for the Gatestone Institute, the Hill, Human Events, National Review, Fox News, Warrior Maven, Breaking Defense, and Frontiers of Freedom. He has written for the JINSA (Journal of International Security Affairs) as well as InFocus and the ROA Monthly magazine.

Huessy graduated from the Columbia University School of International Affairs while also studying at the School of Law. He received degrees in Anthropology and International Relations from Beloit College while also creating his own degree program through the Porter Scholars Program in National Security Policy at Beloit College, which included studying in the Republic of Korea at Yonsei University in Seoul and working as a legislative intern in the US Senate.

Huessy worked as an intern for Senators Nelson and Proxmire, and as a legislative assistant for Senator Mike Gravel, as well as for Senator McGovern and Frank Church. From 1976-9 he was chief government relations director at the Environmental Fund and then Special Assistant on International energy and environment to the Secretary of the Interior, 1979-81.

He is currently working on a book about the Democrats who helped Reagan win the Cold War and end the Soviet Union, using as source material their remarks over some four decades captured at his breakfast seminar series.