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.
A bipartisan group of senators Wednesday moved to formally condemn the Trump administration's recent emergency arms sales to Saudi Arabia, arguing that the controversial sales erode trust and cooperation between Congress and the White House.
Top North Korean officials on Wednesday said President Trump's diplomatic outreach is little more than a front and that Washington is secretly plotting an "aggressive war."
A Russian aircraft intercepted a U.S. plane three times within about three hours on Tuesday, military officials said, including an unprovoked and dangerous "high-speed pass" that endangered the lives of the American crew.
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has accepted the original conclusions of inquiries into the 2017 Niger ambush that killed four American soldiers, and no further punishments will be handed out, according to media reports.
The Trump administration is cracking down harder on travel to Cuba, this time banning group trips by cruise ship, yacht and corporate plane as Washington seeks to starve the communist island of U.S. tourist dollars.
The Chinese government on Tuesday issued a pair of formal advisories against travel to the U.S., warning that citizens could be subjected to "harassment" or could fall victim to increased gun violence and robberies across America.
The nuclear device detonated by North Korea two years ago produced an explosion roughly 16 times bigger than the one created when the U.S. bombed Hiroshima in 1945, according to a new report.
Defense Department officials over the weekend said there's been no formation of a joint U.S.-Turkish study group to examine the compatibility of American F-35 fighter jets with the Russian-made S-400 missile system.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Sunday the nation has the right to defend itself against U.S. aggression and specifically vowed that Tehran will use "whatever missiles it wants" as a deterrence against increased American military presence in the region.
Top White House officials on Sunday downplayed the furor over an effort to hide the USS John S. McCain from view when President Trump visited Japan over Memorial Day, blaming the incident on the media and an unnamed "23- or 24-year-old" staffer who asked a perfectly valid question.
China's violent crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters 30 years ago was the "correct policy" and ushered in a period of political stability inside the country, Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe said Sunday.
Patrick M. Shanahan this weekend admonished the White House to keep politics out of the military amid a furor over efforts to hide the USS John S. McCain from President Trump on Memorial Day -- and the clash couldn't have come at a more crucial, pressure-packed moment for the acting defense secretary.
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan on Friday night delivered a stern rebuke of China and said "now is the time to call out" Beijing's increasingly aggressive behavior in the South China Sea, which he argued has had devastating ecological consequences and could destabilize the region.
Iran may be breaking a key portion of an Obama-era deal to limit its nuclear program, a United Nations watchdog said Friday in a major new report that comes as military tensions between Washington and Tehran escalate.
President Trump and his Turkish counterpart this week agreed to form a study group examining the compatibility of the F-35 fighter jet with the Russian-made S-400 missile system, according to media reports, with Mr. Trump overriding objections from advisers in the Pentagon and State Department.
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan said Thursday he's ordered his chief of staff to investigate the military's role in an apparent White House directive to conceal the name of the Navy warship USS John S. McCain during President Trump's visit to Japan last weekend.
Iran and its regional proxies remain an active threat to American forces in the Middle East, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Wednesday, stressing that the Trump administration's countermeasures so far have not produced lasting changes in Tehran's behavior.
Britain's colorful speaker of Parliament said Tuesday that President Trump once again won't be welcome to speak in the hallowed legislative chamber during his state visit next month, telling an audience in Washington he hasn't changed his low opinion of the U.S. president.
President Trump is still not welcome to address the British Parliament, U.K. House of Commons Speaker John Bercow said Tuesday, arguing that Mr. Trump has done nothing over the past two years to earn that right.