Bill Gertz is a national security correspondent for The Washington Times. He has been with The Times since 1985. He is the author of eight books, four of them national best-sellers. His latest book, "Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy," reveals details about the growing threat posed by the People's Republic of China. He is also the author of the ebook "How China's Communist Party Made the World Sick." Mr. Gertz also writes Inside the Ring, a weekly column that chronicles the U.S. national security bureaucracy. Mr. Gertz has been a guest lecturer at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va.; the Central Intelligence Agency in Virginia; the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington; and the Brookings Institution in Washington. He has participated in the National Security Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He studied English literature at Washington College in Chestertown, Md., and journalism at George Washington University. He is married and has two daughters. He can be reached at bgertz@washingtontimes.com.
Chinese technology companies are smuggling electronic warfare gear into the United States, posing a danger to civil aviation and public safety, the Department of Homeland Security said in a warning notice.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told senators Wednesday that China's ruling communist government is no longer limiting its ambitions to regional hegemony but ultimately wants to dominate the world.
The FBI uncovered documents alleging China is linked to the production of fraudulent driver's licenses that were to be used for fake mail-in ballots supporting then-presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden in the 2020 election, FBI Director Kash Patel said.
The stunning effectiveness of recent Israeli and Ukrainian attacks deep inside enemy territory using smuggled and disguised drones and missiles has raised sharp new questions about the vulnerability of U.S. bases, ships and planes to weapons hidden in harmless-looking shipping containers -- containers that may already be stashed on American soil.
China has deployed two aircraft carriers deep into the Pacific Ocean for the first time in an action regional officials and China analysts say highlights Beijing's expansionist military goals.
The Navy and Marines are fielding advanced unmanned weapons in preparation for a potential future conflict with China that key service leaders told Congress on Tuesday poses a major threat to U.S. and allied security.
Federal authorities in Michigan have charged a third Chinese national with smuggling biological materials capable of causing diseases in humans, the Justice Department and FBI said.
The People's Liberation Army failed to implement key military reforms needed to meet the goal of having enough firepower to take Taiwan by force in 2027, according to an Air Force think tank report.
The ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu once declared that subduing your enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. For China today, that goal is closer to being realized through new weaponry and capabilities that Beijing calls cognitive warfare.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin teased several new characteristics of the forthcoming F-47 advanced fighter jet in a recent social media post.
The Energy Department has placed South Korea on its list of "sensitive" countries over growing support in the country for developing nuclear weapons instead of relying on U.S. nuclear deterrence.
Two Chinese nationals were charged Tuesday with conspiracy to smuggle into the United States a fungus with potential use as a terror weapon against American agriculture, the U.S. attorney in Detroit announced in a statement.
North Korea dispatched 11,000 troops to Russia for its war in Ukraine and supplied Moscow with at least 100 ballistic missiles and millions of rounds of artillery shells and rockets, according to an international intelligence report.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Sunday issued a blistering statement that accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of pushing a "Cold War mentality" and stoking "bloc confrontation" between China and the U.S.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sounded the alarm on Chinese military plans to attack Taiwan and said any assault on the island democracy would have devastating consequences.
The State Department has begun to "aggressively" revoke visas for hundreds of thousands of Chinese students in the United States over concerns the communist nation is using students to steal U.S. technology.
China's military is expected to conduct attacks on U.S. satellites and their support structures during a future conflict and such attacks will be difficult to deter, according to a report by the China Aerospace Studies Institute, an Air Force think tank.
The Marine Corps plans to carry out a test firing of the new Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System, or NMESIS, anti-ship missile in exercises this week near Taiwan.
The danger of war with China over Taiwan is increasing and the U.S. needs to be better prepared for the conflict, retired senior military officers and a former high-ranking diplomat told Congress.
Sen. Deb Fischer, chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, said this week that the Pentagon needs certain electromagnetic bands for building an effective missile defense system.