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.
It's been described as an unspeakably brutal "massacre," even a "genocide" perpetrated by Israel's powerful military machine against innocent civilians trapped in the Gaza Strip. In reality, data show, Israel's campaign to defeat Hamas in the densely populated Palestinian enclave is one of the most careful and surgical operations in recent human history.
Israeli leaders vowed Monday that the weekend's Iranian attack "will be met with a response" as Jerusalem appears poised to brush aside the Biden administration's call for diplomacy and de-escalation and instead opt for more aggressive retaliation against Tehran.
Top Biden administration officials on Monday doubled down on their calls for a measured, de-escalatory response from Israel to the massive Iranian attack on the Jewish state over the weekend.
Iran on Saturday launched a coordinated drone attack on Israel, according to Israeli and U.S. officials, as Tehran brushed off warnings from the Biden administration and appeared willing to escalate its standoff with Jerusalem.
It has been a red line for President Biden since the U.S. and its NATO allies first rushed to Ukraine's defense after the Russian invasion of early 2022, but the prohibition on U.S. and Western combat boots on the ground in the war is itself under fresh attack.
Direct U.S.-North Korea diplomacy appears nearly nonexistent as Pyongyang rapidly deepens its military and political relationships with Russia, one of Washington's leading geopolitical adversaries.
The U.S. likely provided Russia with enough information to help avert the recent ISIS-K attack on a Moscow concert that killed more than 130 people, a former American military official said Sunday, as questions swirl about whether the Kremlin knew the assault was coming and allowed it to happen.
Protests across Israel on Sunday put even more political pressure on embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose approval numbers among the public keep dropping and whose relationship with the Biden administration has reached an all-time low.
Most U.S. troops need to get more sleep. That's the big-picture takeaway from a sweeping Government Accountability Office study that found a sizable majority of service members get six or fewer hours of sleep each night -- less than the minimum of seven hours recommended by the Defense Department.
At least 115 people were killed and many more wounded in an attack on a Moscow concert hall Friday, Russian officials said, marking one of the deadliest assaults in recent history in Russia and coming just two weeks after U.S. officials warned of a looming terrorist attack on the Russian capital.
The rapidly growing threat posed by the Islamic State-Khorasan Province, the jihadi terrorist group's Afghanistan affiliate better known as ISIS-K, has linked the U.S. with some of its most bitter enemies, including Russia, Iran and even Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime, in the high-stakes world of counterterrorism.
"Major warning signs" in the national security sector could hold back America's ability to innovate at a crucial moment in the intensifying global competition with adversaries such as Russia and China, according to a report made public Tuesday.
A nonpartisan watchdog group sent a letter to top Pentagon officials this week requesting all information that led to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's public claim that more than 25,000 Palestinians had been killed in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 -- a figure based on data supplied by the Hamas militant group.
Shadowy pro-Ukraine "Russian liberation forces" said they took control of a Russian town just over the Ukrainian border Tuesday as part of a seemingly well-coordinated assault by anti-Kremlin groups designed to bring the war to Russian soil.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto argues in an exclusive interview that his country remains the only NATO nation to avoid sending weapons to Ukraine because such a step, he believes, would only prolong a war with Russia that it is increasingly evident neither side can win.
There is no evidence to support claims that shadowy elements inside the U.S. government have made contact with alien life forms, have reverse-engineered extraterrestrial spaceships, or have systematically kept that information hidden from the American public for decades, according to a remarkable new Pentagon report issued Friday.