Wade Huntley

Wade Huntley holds a joint appointment in the National Security Affairs department and the Cyber Academic Group at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Teaching and research interests include cyber strategy and policy, nuclear weapons strategy and WMD proliferation, East Asian regional security, and international relations theories. His current research focuses on the operational uses and strategic implications of emerging new technologies, including cyber capabilities, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, directed energy, quantum computing, and IT-enabled influence operations. Presently he is Principal Investigator for a Navy Research Program project on balancing offensive and defensive cyber capabilities supporting U.S. Navy Fleet Cyber Command, and contributor on other projects involving economic deterrence prospects in East Asia, proliferation impacts of AUKUS, U.S. Navy fleet regeneration capacities, and deterrence stability implications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and prompt strike weapons systems.
Dr. Huntley’s background includes a U.C Berkeley Ph.D. in political science and B.A. in economics, computer science training, and work on technology, strategy, and regional security topics in previous positions. Publications include four edited volumes and over fifty peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and scholarly essays across his research and teaching interests. Recent publications include two chapters on Technology Threats to NC3 in Nuclear Command, Control, And Communications: A Primer on US Systems and Future Challenges (2022: Georgetown University Press), and a forthcoming peer-reviewed article, “The Offense-Defense Balance in Cyberspace.” At NPS, he has advised over one hundred Ph.D. and master’s degree thesis students.