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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

Inside the Ring

The Obama administration has given in to pressure from China and will not send the aircraft carrier strike group led by the USS George Washington to the Yellow Sea for upcoming naval exercises. The move followed protests from Beijing that a warship group in that area would pose a threat to China.

July 21, 2010

U.S.: Russian cheating on START is insignificant

A classified State Department report to Congress says that potential Russian cheating on the new START nuclear-arms pact would not be significant because of the size of U.S. nuclear forces.

July 20, 2010
**FILE** Adm. Robert F. Willard, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command (Associated Press)

S. Korea, U.S. show force over sunk ship

The admiral in charge of U.S. forces in the Pacific said Tuesday that U.S. and South Korean naval and air forces will conduct large-scale exercises near North Korea in a "show of force" against the communist state for its sinking of a South Korean warship in March.

July 20, 2010
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is trying to limit reporters' access to Pentagon officials, both military and civilian. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates' July 2 memorandum to all top Pentagon and military leaders is part of multiyear effort to tighten controls on information provided to the media by limiting reporters' access by officials, both military and civilian.

July 14, 2010

Spy swap puts halt to fact finding

The Obama administration's rapid release of 10 Russian intelligence officers removed the prospect of a public trial revealing embarrassing facts about Russian influence operations, like the targeting of a key Democratic Party financier close to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

July 13, 2010
John Brennan, the deputy White House national security adviser for counterterrorism, says Islamic terrorists "have truly just distorted the whole concept [of jihad] in terms of murder." (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring

John Brennan, the deputy White House national security adviser for counterterrorism, recently defended controversial statements he made in a speech that Islamic terrorism is not rooted in Islam.

July 7, 2010

U.S. intel braces for Kremlin blowback as result of spy case

U.S. intelligence agencies are on alert for retaliation by Moscow, including a mass arrest of U.S. diplomats or intelligence officers who could then be used in a swap for 10 people arrested on suspicion of roles as Russian deep-cover spies posing as Americans.

June 30, 2010
** FILE ** In this May 10, 2010, file photo, Commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan Gen. Stanley McChrystal, and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl W. Eikenberry brief reporters ahead of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's visit at the White House. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Inside the Ring

The firing of Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, commander of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan, was preceded by a short political death watch among senior military brass.

June 23, 2010
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at a public gathering in Iran. He says Tehran is willing to deal with the outside world but resents U.N. sanctions. (Associated Press)

Military in Iran seen as taking control

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Sunday that Iran's government is becoming a military dictatorship, with religious leaders being sidelined and, as a result, new sanctions could pressure Tehran into curbing its illegal nuclear program.

June 20, 2010

Inside the Ring

The Obama administration is secretly working with Russia to conclude an agreement that many officials fear will limit U.S. missile defenses.

June 16, 2010
An Uzbek's home burns after being torched by Kyrgyz men in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, on Sunday. Thousands of Kyrgyz men brandishing sticks, metal bars and hunting rifles burned Uzbeks' property in the Central Asian nation as frightened police stayed away. (Associated Press)

Russians pressing Kyrgyzstan to oust U.S. base

The strategic U.S. air base at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, again is facing closure as Russia works behind the scenes to influence Kyrgyzstan's interim government, which faced violent ethnic clashes over the weekend.

June 13, 2010
**FILE** Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (The Washington Times)

Mullen irked by China’s response to North Korea

The president's most senior military adviser said he was dismayed by China's failure to support U.S. and allied calls for punishing North Korea over its sinking of a South Korean warship.

June 10, 2010
The Embraer EMB-314 Super Tucano is urgently needed in Afghanistan, the Pentagon's Joint Staff has been told. (Embraer Image Gallery)

Inside the Ring

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, recently sent an urgent request to the Pentagon's Joint Staff to speed up deployment of four new light attack aircraft needed by special operations commandos for airstrikes against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan.

June 9, 2010

2008 intrusion of networks spurred combined units

A foreign computer intrusion two years ago reached classified Pentagon computer networks, prompting a reorganization of offensive and defensive cyberwarfare efforts, the commander of the new U.S. Cyber Command said Thursday.

June 3, 2010
Diplomatic, military and contractor personnel in Baghdad last year formed the Baghdad Lacrosse Club, with the help of U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill (background). (U.S. Embassy in Baghdad)

Inside the Ring

U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill has helped organize, and actually plays for, a unique sports club in Baghdad's Green Zone: The Baghdad Lacrosse Club.

June 2, 2010

Report: Iran mum, but making nuke material

Iran is continuing to hide details about its current and past nuclear-weapons activities, including efforts to develop a nuclear missile warhead, according to a new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

May 31, 2010
**FILE** Robert M. Gates (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has given in to political pressure on the issue of when Congress should vote to repeal the law banning open homosexuals in the military.

May 26, 2010

North Korea elite linked to crime

A group of offspring of senior North Korean communist and military leaders, including Kim Jong-il's sons, have been linked by Western intelligence authorities to Pyongyang's illicit activities around the world.

May 24, 2010