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John T. Seward

John T. Seward

jseward@washingtontimes.com

John T. Seward is a Defense and National Security Correspondent at The Washington Times, delivering insightful reporting on key decision-making in Washington and new defense technologies for Threat Status.John previously worked at Sinclair’s The National Desk before helping stand-up the non-profit newsroom NOTUS as one of its first class of newsroom fellows.
John graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a B.S. in Philosophy and served seven years as a U.S. Army artillery officer before leaving the service to become a journalist. In 2021 he graduated from American University with his M.A. in Journalism and Public Affairs.He can be reached at JohnS.13 on Signal and at jseward@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by John T. Seward

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff gather for a family photo at the Chancellery in Berlin, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (Lisi Niesner/Pool Photo via AP)

Steve Witkoff calls latest Miami peace talks with Ukraine ‘productive’

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, the Trump administration's point man on the Russia-Ukraine war, said Sunday that the weekend's peace talks in Miami were "productive and constructive" -- an upbeat assessment echoed earlier in the day by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

December 21, 2025
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, second left, and US Secretary of state Marco Rubio, right, at the beginning of talks with the Ukrainian delegation at the US Permanent Mission in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

Rubio hails progress in talks on Ukraine-Russia peace plan in Switzerland

Top U.S. and Ukrainian officials, under pressure from the White House to meet a Thanksgiving Day deadline for a peace deal with Russia, said Sunday that they had made significant progress in a round of talks in Switzerland that Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the most productive in "a very long time."

November 23, 2025
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks at a drone while touring a display of multi-domain autonomous systems in the Pentagon courtyard in Arlington, Va., on Wednesday, July 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) **FILE**

Pentagon says Biden-era Replicator drone program now under new special unit

The secretive "Replicator" drone program, established by the Biden administration within the Defense Department's leading tech-industry collaboration unit to accelerate the acquisition and deployment of unmanned systems to U.S. warfighters, has a new home under the U.S. Special Operations Command.

November 18, 2025