Peter R. Huessy

Peter R. Huessy

Peter Huessy is President of his own defense consulting firm, GeoStrategic
Analysis, founded in 1981.
Peter R. Huessy

By 2016, Defense Will Increase by $50 Billion and Other Spending by $7 Trillion

Posted by Peter R. Huessy Jan 6th 2012 at 2:39 pm in Homeland Security, Military Funding, News, Obama, Politics, Soldiers, veterans | Comments(15)
It looks like the nation’s national security may soon take it in the shorts, a repeat of the 1990s but worse. Then, defense spending declined in real terms by a cumulative $300 billion from 1993-2000. At the same time, the major procurement accounts were under-funded by fully 40% according to a [...]
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Romney Is Right: We Do Need To Increase Defense Spending

Posted by Peter R. Huessy Oct 10th 2011 at 8:04 am in Afghanistan, Economy, Foreign Policy, History, Homeland Security, Iran, Media Criticism, Military Technology, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, Obama, Politics, Soldiers, Strategy, Terrorism, Weapons, arms control/disarmament, chemical/biological weapons | Comments(70)
Neil King, Jr., writing in the October 8-9 Wall Street Journal, “Romney Calls for Defense Boost”, apparently believes that a speech by a pro-defense candidate for national office needs it own simultaneous rebuttal which he tries mightily to give us. But Mr. King gets his criticism wrong in every respect. First, Mr. King apparently does not [...]
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Obama Has No Strategic Vision

Posted by Peter R. Huessy Oct 4th 2011 at 2:44 am in Afghanistan, Asia, China, Communism, Espionage, Europe, Featured Story, History, Homeland Security, Intelligence, Iran, Islam, Islamic extremism, Latin America, Middle East, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, Obama, Strategy, Terrorism, United Nations, arms control/disarmament, chemical/biological weapons, cyber threats, sharia | Comments(32)
The United States does not now have a defense and national security “vision” for the future appropriate to the threats, challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. What we have is a series of sometimes contradictory tactical strategies that are sometimes aimed as much at domestic political constituencies as they at resolving the crises and [...]
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Malcolm Wallop: A Tribute

Posted by Peter R. Huessy Sep 18th 2011 at 5:01 pm in Featured Story, History, Intelligence, Politics, arms control/disarmament | Comments(9)
A dear friend, courageous Senator, brilliant defense thinker, and one of the few politicians that always spoke in declarative sentences, left us this September 14th at his beautiful ranch home in Wyoming. Wallop: the independent cowboy spirit Malcolm Wallop, US senator from 1977-1995 has died. We will surely miss you sir. I wrote many speeches for him. We [...]
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9/11 Ten Years After: Where We Stand

Posted by Peter R. Huessy Sep 11th 2011 at 1:43 pm in Afghanistan, Homeland Security, Iraq, Islam, Islamic extremism, Israel, Obama, Strategy, Terrorism | Comments(11)
A decade after 9/11 it is hoped America’s security establishment better understands what threats we face of which the attacks of 9/11 were one facet. The answer to that question remains incomplete. After the end of the Cold War we were attacked repeatedly by what were termed terrorists. But we never explicitly connected these attacks [...]
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China’s Debt Default….To US Investors

Posted by Peter R. Huessy Aug 23rd 2011 at 3:01 am in China, Economy, Featured Story | Comments(26)
A senior Administration delegation has just left the People’s Republic of China. While there, the Chinese were told not to worry about the US paying its debts to the country — their investments in the US were safe. True enough. But, I was struck with the fact that the PRC, however, does not pay its debts [...]
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The Debt Agreement And Defense: Good News, Bad News

Posted by Peter R. Huessy Aug 4th 2011 at 11:00 am in Asia, China, Economy, Europe, Foreign Policy, Homeland Security, Intelligence, Middle East, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, Obama, Politics, Russia, Strategy, Terrorism, Weapons, arms control/disarmament, chemical/biological weapons | Comments(7)
There is good news and bad news in the debt agreement for defense . The good news is that in the next two fiscal years beginning October 1, 2011, national security accounts—including defense, homeland security, foreign assistance, nuclear weapons programs at the energy department and veterans—will spend $686 and $684 billion. By comparison, the budget [...]
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The Budget Deal: American Defense Goes Over A Cliff

Posted by Peter R. Huessy Aug 2nd 2011 at 5:11 am in Congress, Economy, Featured Story, Military Technology, Politics, Soldiers, Strategy, Terrorism, Weapons, veterans | Comments(22)
It looks like the nation’s national security may soon take it in the shorts, in a repeat of the 1990’s but worse. Then, defense declined in real terms by a cumulative $300 billion 1993-2000. At the same time, the major procurement accounts were under-funded by fully 40% according to a senior defense department official in [...]
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The Big Retreat: Destroying The Defense Budget

Posted by Peter R. Huessy Jul 26th 2011 at 3:24 am in Congress, Economy, Featured Story, Obama, Politics, Soldiers, Strategy, Terrorism, Weapons | Comments(19)
On Drudge July 22, 2011, in a news story about the stalled debt talks, there is buried the disclosure that $1 trillion in spending “cuts” being proposed in the debt extension discussions are estimated to come from the already agreed to draw down of the US presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. But honest book-keeping would already [...]
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Kyl Transcript: Senate Perspectives on Iran, Missile Defense and Nuclear Deterrence

Posted by Peter R. Huessy Apr 16th 2011 at 8:04 am in Iran, Nuclear Proliferation | Comments(2)
041211 NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AND NATIONAL DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION BREAKFAST FORUM WITH SENATOR JON KYL (R-AZ), ON “SENATE PERSPECTIVES ON IRAN, MISSILE DEFENSE AND NUCLEAR DETERRENCE.” (For additional information on NDUF/NDIA forums contact Peter Huessy at huessyp@nduf.org) [This is a rush, unofficial transcript provided by www.NationalSecurityReports.com] MR. PETER HUESSY: Good morning. My name is Peter Huessy and [...]
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