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Ben Wolfgang

Ben Wolfgang

bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com

Ben Wolfgang is a national security correspondent at The Washington Times, a senior member of its Threat Status team, and the host and producer of the award-winning Threat Status Podcast. Ben covers national security, foreign policy, military affairs, the defense industry and the rapidly evolving landscape of military technology.
A Pennsylvania native, he joined The Washington Times in 2011 after serving as a political reporter at The Republican-Herald in Pottsville, Pa. Over the course of his career, Ben has covered the White House, Congress, and four presidential campaigns.
His reporting has earned recognition from some of journalism's most respected organizations, including the Virginia Press Association and the Society of Professional Journalists' Washington, D.C. Chapter, among other honors.
Ben has interviewed heads of state, chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, senior military commanders, cabinet secretaries, senior government officials, and the CEOs of many of the nation's largest and most influential defense companies.
Ben is a frequent guest on broadcast media, with appearances on C-SPAN, the Sirius XM POTUS channel, and other outlets.
He can be reached at bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Ben Wolfgang

A man works next to a destroyed home after rockets struck in Katzrin, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. Lebanon's Hezbollah has launched more than 50 rockets, hitting a number of private homes in the area.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel vows retaliation as Iran launches new salvo of missiles

Iran launched nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday, and Israeli civilians across the country were ordered to remain near bomb shelters, while President Biden ordered the U.S. military to help repel the assault as the conflict across the Middle East escalated.

October 1, 2024
Smoke rises and debris flies from a bridge as it is targeted by an Israeli air raid, in the Zahrani region, on the Mediterranean coast, southern Lebanon, on July 14, 2006. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

No way out? Biden latest U.S. president trapped by Mideast mayhem

President Biden came to power aiming to do the impossible: Dramatically shrink America's military footprint in the Middle East and redirect Washington's focus away from a volatile corner of the world that has consumed U.S. foreign policy for more than two decades.

September 24, 2024
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro holds a news conference at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, July 31, 2024, three days after his disputed reelection. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

U.S. seizes Venezuelan President Maduro’s official airplane

The U.S. reportedly seized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's official airplane and flew it to America on Monday, marking a major escalation in the standoff between Washington and Caracas just weeks after the Biden administration accused Mr. Maduro of essentially stealing the country's July presidential election.

September 2, 2024
Mourners and family members gather to bury Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was killed in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, attend their son's funeral in Jerusalem, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool via AP)

Israeli judge cuts work stoppage short, but furious Netanyahu gets message

A court ordered tens of thousands of Israelis back to work Monday, ending a short-lived but widespread strike that cast a spotlight on the political divisions and growing anger in the country after the weekend deaths of six Israeli hostages held by the terrorist group Hamas.

September 2, 2024
A protester steps on a campaign sign of President Nicolas Maduro during a march against hish being declared the winner of the presidential election, the day after the vote in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

U.S., other opponents of Maduro weigh response to election ‘victory’

Venezuela teetered on the brink of a political crisis Monday after President Nicolas Maduro claimed reelection amid contested and seemingly suspicious vote tallies, while the Biden administration cast heavy doubt on the results and critics alleged that Mr. Maduro's socialist government had flagrantly overturned the will of the country's voters.

July 29, 2024
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov attends a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Kremlin takes aim at Kamala Harris’ lack of foreign policy credentials amid global uncertainty

Some of America's adversaries appeared eager Monday to downplay the foreign policy credentials of Vice President Kamala Harris, now the heavy favorite to be the Democratic Party's 2024 White House nominee after President Biden left the race a day earlier, painting Ms. Harris as a figure with minimal impact on U.S. relationships and policies abroad during her tenure in the White House.

July 22, 2024