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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

Islamic State demonstrators chant pro-al Qeada messages in Mosul. According to U.S. counterterrorism officials, both the North Africa-based al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula have seen defections to the Islamic State in recent weeks. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Al Qaeda, Islamic State teaming up

U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria have prompted several central al Qaeda groups, including its two most dangerous regional affiliates, to reconsider their opposition to the ultraviolent offshoot organization.

October 8, 2014
Muhsin al-Fadhli. (Image: U.S. State Department)

Inside the Ring: Death of a terrorist?

U.S. military and intelligence officials are trying to confirm intelligence and social media reports that the leader of the al Qaeda offshoot in Syria known as the Khorasan Group was killed in Monday's airstrikes.

September 24, 2014
A check point near the northeastern city of Qamishli, Syria. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)

Inside the Ring: CIA goes to war

Behind the scenes of the U.S. military preparations for airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against the al Qaeda offshoot terrorist group Islamic State, the CIA is gearing up for new drone strikes and a surge in intelligence-gathering operations to support it, according to U.S. officials.

September 17, 2014
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Inside the Ring: An imminent beheading?

Counterterrorism officials are concerned that the Islamic State will behead a British hostage next week, noting consistencies in the terrorist group's decapitations of two American journalists.

September 10, 2014
Intelligence agencies reported that a group of 22 Yemeni-Americans were training in Houston to be seamen on oil tankers, raising terrorism concerns over the unusual activity. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Terrorist tanker training?

U.S. intelligence agencies last month reported that a group of 22 Yemeni-Americans were training in Houston to be seamen on oil tankers, raising terrorism concerns over the unusual activity.

September 3, 2014
Three B-2 bombers completed a tour of duty in Guam this week, as tensions remained high between the U.S. and China. (Department of Defense via Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: B-2 bombers’ ‘messages’

Three B-2 strategic nuclear bombers completed a tour of duty in Guam this week, as tensions remained high between the United States and China over what the Pentagon called a "dangerous" Chinese fighter-jet intercept of a U.S. surveillance plane last week.

August 27, 2014
U.S. counterterrorism officials say efforts to use social media to spy on the Islamic State have been thwarted by Twitter's crackdown on ISIL tweets. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Quieting Islamic State’s tweets

U.S. counterterrorism officials say Twitter's crackdown on tweets from the Islamic State is complicating efforts to identify the terrorist group's key members and activities by intelligence agencies that increasingly use social media to spy on the militants.

August 20, 2014
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said his concern over foreign terrorist groups is whether or not they are sharing personnel, intelligence and resources. (associated press)

Inside the Ring: Chinese missiles tested

China's military has conducted flight tests of two intercontinental ballistic missiles, including one of its newest road-mobile DF-31As that can reach the United States with a nuclear warhead.

August 6, 2014
An Israeli army officer gives journalists a tour, Friday, July 25, 2014, of a tunnel allegedly used by Palestinian militants for cross-border attacks, at the Israel-Gaza Border. A network of tunnels Palestinian militants have dug from Gaza to Israel, dubbed "lower Gaza" by the Israeli military, is taking center stage in the latest war between Hamas and Israel. (AP Photo/Jack Guez, Pool)

Israel surprised by Hamas tunnel network

Israeli military intelligence is facing criticism for failing to comprehend the network of tunnels and other underground facilities built by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

July 31, 2014
A Chinese submarine on the ocean surface. (credit: AsiaNews)

China invests in nuclear submarines

China's military is investing heavily in advanced submarines, including both ballistic and cruise missile firing vessels — and attack subs.

July 4, 2014
An F-22 Raptor pilot from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, approaches a KC-135 Stratotanker to be refueled May 19, 2014, over the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex. (U.S. Air Force photo)

F-22 Raptors deployed to confront China

The Pentagon is sending a powerful political signal to China by dispatching six front-line F-22 stealth jets to Asia — a message received loudly in Beijing, according to state-run media.

July 3, 2014