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.
The successful use of B-2 bombers and Tomahawk missiles to destroy nuclear facilities in Iran has not diminished the Trump administration's interest in diplomacy when it comes to North Korea. But the U.S. military action in the Middle East has likely bolstered the Kim Jong-un regime's view that its nuclear and missile programs are key to its survival.
China is engaged in asymmetric warfare against the United States through covert support for fentanyl-trafficking drug cartels, according to an open-source intelligence report.
The World Health Organization said in a 78-page report released last week it cannot pinpoint the cause of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China, five years ago -- in part because of a lack of cooperation on the part of Chinese officials.
China's military power is increasing rapidly with the deployment of advanced conventional and nuclear strike weapons that threaten the U.S. homeland and bases abroad, Air Force leaders told a Senate panel.
Communist China is expected to step up intelligence analysis of President Trump and U.S. military strike capabilities after the Pentagon's dispatch of B-2 bombers to Guam in a deception operation designed to keep the secrecy of Saturday's B-2 raid on Iran.
President Trump and his administration are vehemently denouncing reports quoting a secret Defense Intelligence Agency preliminary assessment that asserts the post-bombing damage at Iran's nuclear facilities was limited.
The unprecedented long-range bombing strike by the U.S. on Iran's nuclear plants, including sending decoy B-2 bombers to Guam, had the secondary impact of bolstering deterrence against a Chinese attack on Taiwan, China affairs analysts say.
China condemned the U.S. bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities again Monday and plans United Nations diplomatic action together with Russia to further oppose the American strike and the Israel-Iran war, China's Foreign Ministry said.
The Trump administration is halting companies from conducting clinical trials in China using Americans' DNA samples in a program authorized by the Biden administration, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
The U.S. military is investing heavily in military drones based on the battlefield successes by Ukraine and Israel using attack drones in remote strikes, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Congress.
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.