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Ben Wolfgang

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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 Ukrainian serviceman checks the trenches dug by Russian soldiers in a retaken area in Kherson region, Ukraine, Oct. 12, 2022. Russia relinquished its final foothold in a major city in southern Ukraine on Friday Nov. 11, 2022, clearing the way for victorious Ukrainian forces to reclaim the country’s only Russian-held provincial capital that could act as a springboard for further advances into occupied territory. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

Ukraine celebrates, Russia reels as Kherson re-capture may mark war’s turning point

Ukrainians ramped up a weekend-long celebration Sunday after Russian troops fled the strategic regional capital of Kherson following a nearly nine-month occupation, but city officials now face a monumental task to restore electricity and clean water services amid the "humanitarian catastrophe" left behind by the retreating Russians.

November 13, 2022
U.S. President Joe Biden listens to a speech from Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen during the ASEAN - U.S. summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Biden scrambles for a Plan B with Iran nuclear deal on life support

The global push to constrain Iran's nuclear program has entered uncharted territory as the U.S. and its allies signal that negotiations with Tehran are all but dead, and it's unclear whether the Biden administration has a viable Plan B to keep Iran's theocratic regime from getting a nuclear bomb that the agreement was supposed to prevent.

November 12, 2022
Russian troops guard an entrance of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station, a run-of-river power plant on the Dnieper River in the Kherson region, south Ukraine, Friday, May 20, 2022. Russia’s military has announced that it’s withdrawing from Ukraine's southern city of Kherson and nearby areas. That would be another in a series of humiliating setbacks for Moscow’s forces in the 8-month-old war. (AP Photo, File) **FILE**

Russian forces retreat from key city of Kherson in embarrassing setback

Russian military commanders said Wednesday their troops will retreat from the Ukrainian city of Kherson and set up defensive lines on the other side of the Dnieper River, marking perhaps the most embarrassing defeat for Moscow so far in the eight-month war and fueling hope that Ukraine may actually be able to recapture the bulk of its territory now in the hands of Russia and pro-Moscow separatist groups.

November 9, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, holds a binoculars as Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu sits near watching the joint strategic exercise of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus Zapad-2021 at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region, Russia, Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. With his room for maneuver narrowing quickly amid Russian military defeats in Ukraine, Putin has signaled that he could resort to nuclear weapons to protect the Russian gains in Ukraine - the harrowing rhetoric that shattered a mantra of stability he has repeated throughout his 22-year rule. (Sergei Savostyanov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Putin’s power play: Russia’s rebuke neuters U.N. push to end war in Ukraine

It was one of the sharpest, most sweeping rebukes in the recent history of the United Nations. On Oct. 12, 143 countries led by the U.S. and its allies voted to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine and demand that Russian President Vladimir Putin withdraw all of his troops from Ukrainian territory.

November 6, 2022
In this Aug. 26, 2021, image provided by the U.S. Army, an Afghan man hands his child to a British Paratrooper assigned to 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment while a member of 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division conducts security at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (U.S. Army via AP) **FILE**

Failures of Afghanistan pullout fade for voters

It dominated the headlines in the summer of 2021 and raised serious questions about the Biden administration's basic competence. President Biden's approval rating took a sharp hit and it looked to be a potential political liability for Democrats.

November 3, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin, second right, gestures as he visits with Deputy Commander of the Airborne Troops Anatoly Kontsevoy, right, a military training centre of the Western Military District for mobilised reservists in Ryazan Region, Russia, on Oct. 20, 2022. Moscow after a string of battlefield defeats and other setbacks, further cornering Russian President Vladimir Putin and setting the stage for an escalation. Ukrainian forces pressing an offensive in the south have zeroed in on Kherson, a provincial capital that has been under Russian control since the early days of the invasion. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Dirty tricks: U.S., allies denounce Russian bomb claim as disinformation

The U.S. and its European allies mounted a preemptive, full-court press Monday to debunk Russian claims about a looming "dirty bomb" attack by Ukrainian troops on Ukrainian soil, painting those claims as the potential first step in a major Kremlin "false flag" operation that could justify a Russian response and ultimately escalate to a nuclear war.

October 24, 2022