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Bill Gertz

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

Inside the Ring: North Korea seeks aid while building nukes

The North Korean regime of Kim Jong-un is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop nuclear weapons and missiles at the same time the government is begging international aid groups to provide flood relief.

September 14, 2016

Inside the Ring: Clinton email compromised in hostile cyberattacks

The FBI's once-secret report on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's email system reveals that messages sent to aides were compromised by hostile foreign actors.

September 7, 2016

Islamic State: From nation-state to terror group

Battlefield successes against the Islamic State could force the group to shift away from nation-state status to a less visible terror threat, the commander of the U.S. Central Command said this week.

August 31, 2016

Pentagon’s Office of Threat assement under fire from military, Congress

The Pentagon's storied Office of Net Assessment (ONA) is coming under fire from critics inside the military and in Congress for failing to produce more of its signature product, namely, top-secret net assessments.

August 24, 2016

China advances toward ‘Star Trek’-like teleportation

Xinhua said eventually quantum communication could produce physical teleportation, as shown in the 1960s science fiction program "Star Trek."

August 18, 2016

Inside the Ring: Senate chairman hits Obama on test ban treaty

The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has warned President Obama not to circumvent the Senate's constitutional authority by seeking United Nations approval of a nuclear test ban treaty voted down 17 years ago.

August 17, 2016

Pentagon bans Pokemon Go over spying fears

A Pentagon source tells Inside the Ring that the Defense Department has banned the playing of the mobile video game Pokemon Go within Defense Department facilities, over concerns the popular application could facilitate foreign spying.

August 11, 2016

U.S.-backed rebels move on Syrian city of Manbij

American-backed rebels in Syria on Wednesday closed in on the northern city of Manbij, a key stronghold for Islamic State terrorists who have used it to control access to the Turkish border, around 28 miles from the city that is located about 18 miles west of the Euphrates River.

August 10, 2016

Gavin Long, cop killer, linked to separatists

The former Marine sergeant who murdered three Louisiana police officers this week was part of a black anti-government movement called the Moorish Nation, according to a law enforcement intelligence report.

July 20, 2016

U.S. military told to avoid 37 American cities for fear anti-police protests may turn violent

The Army last week warned all military personnel in the United States to avoid 37 American cities this week over concerns that anti-police protests, dubbed "Days of Rage," are planned and could turn violent.

July 14, 2016

Islamic State attack targets U.S. in Saudi Arabia

The recent spate of suicide bombings in Saudi Arabia by the Islamic State terrorist group reveals that the al Qaeda offshoot is having difficulties operating inside the kingdom. One of the attacks appeared to target the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah. The report said the attack could signal "the first incident directly involving U.S. diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia by ISIL."

July 13, 2016

Islamic State expands to 7 more nations

Two years since it shifted from terrorist group to governing organization holding territory, the Islamic State is expanding to seven emerging areas of Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, according to a State Department security report.

July 6, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s emails in Vladimir Putin’s hands?

U.S. intelligence agencies are said to be closely watching Russian online blogs and other postings for any signs that Moscow hackers have covertly obtained the bulk of Hillary Clinton's email messages stolen from her private email server and are preparing to make them public.

June 29, 2016