Ben Wolfgang is a national security correspondent at The Washington Times, a senior member of its Threat Status team, and the host and producer of the award-winning Threat Status Podcast. Ben covers national security, foreign policy, military affairs, the defense industry and the rapidly evolving landscape of military technology. A Pennsylvania native, he joined The Washington Times in 2011 after serving as a political reporter at The Republican-Herald in Pottsville, Pa. Over the course of his career, Ben has covered the White House, Congress, and four presidential campaigns. His reporting has earned recognition from some of journalism's most respected organizations, including the Virginia Press Association and the Society of Professional Journalists' Washington, D.C. Chapter, among other honors. Ben has interviewed heads of state, chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, senior military commanders, cabinet secretaries, senior government officials, and the CEOs of many of the nation's largest and most influential defense companies. Ben is a frequent guest on broadcast media, with appearances on C-SPAN, the Sirius XM POTUS channel, and other outlets. He can be reached at bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com.
President Trump's surprise threat to launch strikes in Nigeria has thrust back into the spotlight this often-overlooked reality: Africa is one of the most active international hot spots for the U.S. military.
The Pentagon will undertake a historic transformation in the way it acquires and delivers weapons to its warfighters, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday, with a new emphasis on speed that marks one of the most significant overhauls in decades to America's military-industrial ecosystem.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to unveil major changes Friday to how the Pentagon acquires and delivers weapons to its warfighters, with a new emphasis on speed that will potentially mark one of the most significant overhauls in decades to America's military-industrial ecosystem.
Legal scholars say the Trump administration may have a solid argument that international drug cartels are using narcotics as de facto weapons of war and are targeting the U.S. with the intent of doing physical harm -- in the form of drug addiction -- to its citizens.
The Pentagon's crackdown on communications with Congress will make it harder for lawmakers to get the information they need on military affairs, said Republican lawmakers, retired military officers and former Defense Department officials.
China condemned America's "disruption to regional peace and stability" on Monday, just hours after a U.S. Navy helicopter and fighter jet crashed into the South China Sea.
The Pentagon on Wednesday announced that more than 60 journalists have agreed to the restrictive new press policies implemented by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and will form the "next generation of the Pentagon press corps."
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has lost the trust and respect of some top military commanders, with his public "grandstanding" widely seen as unprofessional and the personnel moves made by the former cable TV host leading to an unprecedented and dangerous exodus of talent from the Pentagon, said current senior military officers and current and former Defense Department officials.
Americans in Trinidad and Tobago should avoid government buildings due to a "heightened state of alert" on the twin-island nation, according to a warning from the U.S. Embassy there.
The U.S.-backed ceasefire in the Gaza Strip barreled toward total collapse Sunday after Hamas terrorists killed two Israeli soldiers and Israeli forces responded with a wave of airstrikes on dozens of targets across the Palestinian enclave.
The Army is developing next-generation mobile nuclear reactors under a program announced Tuesday. It promises to have "at least one" working reactor by summer 2026 as part of a push to ensure reliable power generation at military installations and for forward-deployed troops.
It's an urgent mission for the Pentagon and its defense industry partners: Build cost-effective tools -- lots of them -- to counter the increasingly cheap and lethal tactical attack drones wielded by America's adversaries abroad or terrorists targeting events at home.
Key military officials and defense industry leaders will descend on Washington next week for a major Army conference, with the service's 21st-century modernization effort in the spotlight and against the backdrop of a push across the Pentagon to maintain an edge over America's adversaries.
South Korean authorities indicted Hak Ja Han Moon, the 82-year-old matriarch of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, on Friday on charges of bribery, embezzlement and other alleged offenses.
A meeting between President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is possible in the near future and could provide the spark needed for a deal between Washington and Pyongyang, one that could limit the communist country's nuclear program.
It's no longer a given that the U.S. and its allies will control the skies with ease in conflict. In the 21st century, gaining and maintaining air superiority will require a combination of cutting-edge tactical drones, surveillance aircraft powered by artificial intelligence, multimillion-dollar fighter jets and stealth bombers.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday unveiled a series of new directives he said are aimed at purging the U.S. military of the "woke garbage" that has infected it for years, and he specifically said all service members -- including the highest-ranking officers -- will be required to meet weight requirements and pass physical fitness tests twice a year.