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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 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
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump appears with vice presidential candidate JD Vance, R-Ohio, during the Republican National Convention Monday, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Rebuild military, limit foreign wars, unleash AI: GOP platform lays out Trump’s security priorities

The construction of an Israel-style Iron Dome missile shield over America. A new -- and less regulated -- approach to artificial intelligence. Those are a few of the key foreign policy and national security planks inside the Republican Party's official 2024 platform, a document that's light on many policy specifics but heavy on the broad "America First" principles that have come to define Donald Trump's GOP.

July 16, 2024
President Joe Biden listens as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts are meeting in Washington this week to mark the 75th anniversary of the world's biggest security organization just as Russia presses its advantage on the battlefield in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Ukraine faces moment of truth as NATO allies gather to mark 75th anniversary

The overarching question hanging over NATO leaders as they gather in Washington to mark the alliance's 75th anniversary this week is how and when -- and perhaps, even if -- they will formalize a clear, irreversible pathway to Ukraine's eventual membership in the alliance, even while its grueling war with Russia grinds through its third year.

July 7, 2024