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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

Inside the Ring: Russian arms exporter under fire

A senior senator called out Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta this week over Pentagon cooperation with Russia's state arms exporter amid new reports of weapons transfers by Moscow to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

June 13, 2012
The extended peacetime competition with China "at its heart is a clash of visions for the international system," Rep. J. Randy Forbes, Virginia Republican, says. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Forbes pressures Obama

A key House Republican this week stepped up pressure on the Obama administration for its weak public response to the growing threat posed by China's military buildup.

June 6, 2012

Inside the Ring: FBI on social-network risks

The FBI recently published a report warning of the dangers posed by social-network sites that it says are being exploited by digital "con artists, criminals and other dishonest actors."

May 30, 2012
A sketch by a courtroom artist depicts the five 9/11 co-defendants praying during their arraignment at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on May 5. Their disruptive tactics stretched out the proceedings to 13 hours. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Terrorists’ antics

The Washington-based legal group Judicial Watch earlier this month sent an investigator to Guantanamo Bay Naval Air Station, Cuba, to watch the May 5 arraignment of Khalid Shaikh Mohammad (aka KSM) and four others accused of plotting and executing the Sept. 11, 2001, airline attacks.

May 16, 2012

Inside the Ring: China launcher proliferation

China Defense Minister Liang Guanglie will visit the United States this week and is expected to face questioning on the presence of a Chinese-made mobile strategic-missile launcher that was spotted carrying a new North Korean long-range missile in Pyongyang on April 15.

May 2, 2012
Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the Joint Chiefs chairman, has ordered a review of U.S. military training material with the goal of purging allegedly anti-Islamic content, the online portal Danger Room reported Tuesday. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Brotherhood threat

Islamists linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and similar groups are working to undermine the U.S. government through "civilization jihad" aimed at imposing Islamic law rule in the United States.

April 25, 2012
Sergey Ryabkov, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, May 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Inside the Ring: Aegis Ashore moves ahead

The director of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said Wednesday that the military is moving ahead with deployment of modified sea-based anti-missile interceptors on the ground in Central Europe, something likely to further upset Russia, which opposes U.S. deployments.

April 18, 2012
Gen. Mark A. Welsh III (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Counter-space battle craft

The head of the Air Force Space Command recently made cryptic comments about some aspects of one of the military's most cutting edge and secret weapons, the X-37 space plane.

April 11, 2012
Ilario Pantano, who is seeking to become the Republican nominee to challenge Democratic Rep. Mike McIntyre in North Carolina's 7th congressional district, suggests Saul Alinsky's book "Rules for Radicals" as reading material during a meeting of supporters of the Fair Tax in Wilmington, NC, Wednesday, February 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Logan Wallace)

Inside the Ring: New North Korea ICBM

Details of a new North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) surfaced this week with a report from Asia that U.S. spy agencies spotted what appears to be a larger long-range missile than the one now being readied for launch in the next two weeks.

April 4, 2012
Air Force Gen. C. Robert Kehler, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that budget cuts pose "acceptable" risk levels for U.S. strategic nuclear deterrence against current nuclear-armed enemies. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Nuclear risk

The commander of U.S. strategic nuclear forces told a Senate hearing this week that defense budget cuts are undermining the urgently needed modernization of strategic nuclear forces through delays in planned upgrades.

March 28, 2012
Gen. Norton Schwartz

Inside the Ring: Beijing coup rumors

U.S. intelligence agencies monitoring China's Internet say that from March 14 to Wednesday bloggers circulated alarming reports of tanks entering Beijing and shots being fired in the city as part of what is said to have been a high-level political battle among party leaders - and even a possible military coup.

March 21, 2012

Inside the Ring: Space tech to China

A senior Pentagon official told Congress last week that the U.S. government is concerned about the leakage of embargoed U.S. space technology to China.

March 14, 2012

Inside the Ring: North Korea’s ICBM

Recent congressional testimony confirmed North Korea's development of a new long-range, road-mobile missile that can reach American shores, increasing the threat of a nuclear attack on the United States.

March 7, 2012

Inside the Ring: State blocks grant to Russia

The State Department recently denied $2 million in grants to a Russian research institute over concerns the money would be used to boost Moscow's advanced nuclear missile work.

February 29, 2012
Locklear

Inside the Ring

Chinese cyberattacks and electronic intrusions into U.S. computer networks in peacetime are part of the preparations for a future high-technology war against the United States, according to the U.S. Pacific Command's new commander.

February 22, 2012
Vice President Joe Biden meets with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Inside the Ring

The Pentagon's plan to shift the focus of U.S. military forces to Asia after disengagement in Iraq and Afghanistan got mixed support in the defense budget request released this week.

February 15, 2012

Inside the Ring

The Pentagon's senior weapons-buying official said this week that a program for purchasing offensive and defensive military equipment for cyberwarfare is still being worked on.

February 8, 2012
Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Inside the Ring

U.S. intelligence agencies threw cold water on the President Obama's thus-far-unsuccessful effort to "reset" relations with Russia by making concessions to Moscow.

February 1, 2012

Inside the Ring

CIA Director David H. Petraeus recently replaced the agency's director of support, a senior manager who also runs the agency's massive worldwide logistics, including the security office.

January 25, 2012