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Bill Gertz

Bill Gertz

bgertz@washingtontimes.com

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.

Articles by Bill Gertz

The Pentagon is seen in this aerial view through an airplane window in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

Pentagon urged to wage decision-based AI warfare

The Pentagon is joining the global race to use artificial intelligence to produce more lethal forces but needs to shift from the current use of large language models to a new form of combat that a high-tech company is calling "agentic warfare."

January 29, 2026
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., speaks to reporters following a classified briefing for top congressional lawmakers overseeing national security as they investigate how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth handled a military strike on a suspected drug smuggling boat and its crew in the Caribbean near Venezuela Sept. 2, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf) ** FILE **

Sen. Tom Cotton: China threatens U.S. AI development

The presence of thousands of Chinese nationals at Energy Department laboratories and facilities increases the risk of theft of critical national security information on the U.S. high-priority artificial intelligence development program, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Tom Cotton and 10 other Republican senators warned Energy Secretary Chris Wright this week.

January 15, 2026
The Cuban flag flies at half-mast at the Anti-Imperialist Tribune near the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, in memory of Cubans who died two days before in Caracas, Venezuela during the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Congress requires Pentagon report on Chinese spying from Cuba

The Pentagon must in coming months provide to Congress a report on China's signals intelligence, or SIGINT, collection capabilities in Cuba, along with what is left of Russian technical spying activities on the communist-ruled island.

January 14, 2026
The J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building is seen in Washington, March 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Ex-DIA counterspy reveals use of psychics to hunt spies

A decorated former Defense Intelligence Agency counterintelligence official used a psychic to identify spies working in the U.S., including a suspected foreign agent still working for the FBI, former DIA counterspy, Scott W. Carmichael reveals in a forthcoming book.

January 14, 2026
In this aerial photo taken Aug. 2, 2014, the U.S. Navy USS Essex is shown docked near downtown Seattle during the annual Seafair summer festival. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) **FILE**

Ex-Navy sailor sentenced to prison as spy for China

A San Diego-based former Navy sailor convicted of spying for China was sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for his role in supplying secrets to China, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

January 13, 2026
Scales of justice. Photo credit: Daniel Tadevosyan via Shutterstock. *FILE*

Major Chinese money laundering suspect detained

A California man charged with handling tens of millions of dollars in a Chinese money-laundering operation supporting Mexican drug cartels is being held in federal detention in Ohio, the Justice Department said Thursday.

January 8, 2026
In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, center, is accompanied by his Vice President Bi-Khim Hsiao, second right, and officials wave national flags as they attend a New Year flag raising ceremony at the Presidential Office, in Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

Chinese communist calls for Venezuelan-style raid on Taiwan

Li Yi, a former Chinese university professor, took to social media to praise President Trump for the successful military raid in Venezuela and criticized Beijing for failing to conduct a similar operation against Taiwan.

January 8, 2026