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Ben Wolfgang

bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com

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.

Articles by Ben Wolfgang

South Korean President Moon Jae-in waves before leaving for the United States at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, South Korea, Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Moon will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Moon Jae-in, South Korea president, aims to bridge divide between U.S., North Korea

As North Korea digs in its heels amid a "tense" relationship with the U.S., South Korean President Moon Jae-in arrived in Washington on Wednesday for a key meeting with President Trump -- an opportunity, experts say, for Mr. Moon to seize the moment and pave a path forward in the stalled denuclearization talks between Washington and Pyongyang.

April 10, 2019
A U.S. amphibious hovercraft departs with evacuees from Janzur, west of Tripoli, Libya, Sunday, April 7, 2019. The United States says it has temporarily withdrawn some of its forces from Libya due to deteriorating security conditions. The pullout comes as a Libyan commander's forces advanced toward the capital of Tripoli and clashed with rival militias. A small contingent of American troops has been in Libya in recent years helping local forces combat Islamic State and al-Qaida militants and protecting diplomatic facilities. (AP Photo/Mohammed Omar Aburas)

U.S. pulls military forces from Libya

The U.S. announced Sunday an abrupt withdrawal of military forces from Tripoli amid a deteriorating security situation and growing belief that Libyan militia leader Gen. Khalifa Hifter is on the verge of capturing full control of the country's capital.

April 7, 2019
U.S. Navy SEALs in action. (U.S. Navy photo)

Al-Shabab spurs U.S. military action in terror fight

Despite reports the Pentagon will pull back its presence in Africa, the Trump administration's military campaign against a radical Islamist group in Somalia is accelerating to a record level amid allegations from leading human rights groups that the U.S. is killing civilians and perpetrating war crimes.

March 20, 2019
From the left, Sergei Ivanov, Russian special representative on questions of ecology and transport, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Chief of General Staff of Russia Valery Gerasimov, oversee the test launch of the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle from the Defense Ministry's control room in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018. In the test, the Avangard was launched from the Dombarovskiy missile base in the southern Ural Mountains. The Kremlin says it successfully hit a designated practice target on the Kura shooting range on Kamchatka, 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) away. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia ‘hybrid warfare’ plan employs cyberattacks, military action

Russia will use high-tech disinformation campaigns combined with "limited" military actions as the cornerstones of a grand plan to divide the West and re-establish itself as a global force -- a broad geopolitical strategy that analysts and insiders fear has caught the U.S. and its allies flat-footed.

March 18, 2019
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman James M. Inhofe (left), Oklahoma Republican, welcomed acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan to his first appearance on Capitol Hill since assuming the job Jan. 1. (Associated Press)

Patrick Shanahan, Joseph Dunford deny Trump ‘slush fund’

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan on Thursday defended the Pentagon's $718 billion fiscal 2020 budget request in the face of Democratic complaints that the Trump administration is setting up a slush fund to finance the president's priorities.

March 14, 2019
Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad said the U.S. and the Taliban agreed to draft a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. forces. (Associated Press)

Afghan leaders complain of exclusion from U.S., Taliban talks

Current and former high-level Afghan officials on Wednesday slammed the Trump administration's push to reach a peace deal with the Taliban, saying the escalating talks were tantamount to a "back-door deal" between Washington and the terror group at the expense of an elected government in Kabul.

March 13, 2019
Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan talks to media as he meets with and Qatari Minister of Defense Khalid bin Mohammed al-Attiyah, at the Pentagon, Tuesday, March 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Ethics group lodges complaint against Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan

A leading Washington watchdog on Wednesday filed a formal complaint and asked the Defense Department inspector general to investigate whether acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan violated ethics rules by lobbying for major military contractor Boeing, where Mr. Shanahan worked for three decades.

March 13, 2019