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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

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley arrives for the presentation of the Medal of Honor to Army Sgt. Maj. Thomas P. Payne in the East Room of the White House on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Trump team surprised by Milley’s calls to China

Senior Trump administration officials voiced concern and surprise this week over telephone calls to a Chinese military leader by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley before and after the 2020 presidential election.

September 15, 2021
In this April 22, 2014, photo, a group of suspected al-Qaida militants accused of the killing of an army general in a suicide bombing stands trial at a state security court in Sanaa, Yemen. Over the past decade, even as it used Yemen as a base for international attacks, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has often clashed with the military and security forces, carrying out attacks and withstanding crackdowns even as it sought to weave itself into Yemeni society. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) **FILE**

Al Qaeda rebuilding for U.S. attacks in one to two years: CIA, DIA

The defeat of the American-backed government in Afghanistan has increased the danger that the al Qaeda terrorist group will launch another attack against the United States very quickly, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency said Tuesday.

September 14, 2021
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold (DDG 65) sails through the South China Sea while conducting routine underway operations. Benfold is forward-deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Deanna C. Gonzales) **FILE**

Navy tests China’s new maritime law

The U.S. Navy squared off against the People's Liberation Army on Wednesday following the passage of an American warship near a disputed reef in the South China Sea.

September 8, 2021
In this Feb. 6, 2021, file a worker in protectively overalls and carrying disinfecting equipment walks outside the Wuhan Central Hospital where Li Wenliang, the whistleblower doctor who sounded the alarm and was reprimanded by local police for it in the early days of Wuhan's pandemic, worked in Wuhan in central China. U.S. intelligence agencies remain divided on the origins of the coronavirus but believe China's leaders did not know about the virus before the start of the global pandemic, according to results released Friday, Aug. 27, of a review ordered by President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) **FILE**

DIA leads on lab leak theory

The 17 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community remain divided on how the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic originated, but the Defense Intelligence Agency is the most forward-leaning among the spy services in asserting the virus most likely began inside a Chinese laboratory, according to U.S. intelligence sources.

September 1, 2021
In this Sept. 3, 2015, file photo, Chinese military vehicles carrying DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missiles, potentially capable of sinking a U.S. Nimitz-class aircraft carrier in a single strike, pass by Tiananmen Gate during a military parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing. China’s military test-fired two missiles into the South China Sea, including a “carrier killer” military analysts suggest might have been developed to attack U.S. forces, a newspaper reported Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, Pool, File) **FILE**

China tests new missiles in simulated Taiwan strike

China's recent test of reported new missiles appears to have been a simulated attack on a Taiwan airfield and also a possible test launch of a new hypersonic weapon, according to a U.S. Air Force research center analysis.

August 31, 2021
Taliban fighters patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. The Taliban celebrated Afghanistan's Independence Day on Thursday by declaring they beat the United States, but challenges to their rule ranging from running a country severely short on cash and bureaucrats to potentially facing an armed opposition began to emerge. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

China calls on Taliban to reject terror

China's government this week called on the Taliban to reject support for Islamic terrorism as Beijing held off recognizing the new regime in Kabul until a new government is formed.

August 20, 2021
A soldier holds a Taiwan national flag during a military exercise in Hsinchu County, northern Taiwan, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying) **FILE**

China sends bombers into Taiwan air defense zone

China's military stepped up flights of H-6 bombers near the southeastern tip of Taiwan, triggering air defense forces of the island state, the Taiwan defense ministry said Thursday.

August 19, 2021
In this July 28, 2021, file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pose for a photo during their meeting in Tianjin, China. (Li Ran/Xinhua via AP, File) **FILE**

China set to join ‘graveyard of empires’ in Afghanistan

China has reaped the benefits of costly American military and security efforts in Afghanistan but now faces a hostile Islamic regime near its western border, according to David Stilwell, former assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs, who adds that the Biden administration should not help Beijing deal with its problems there.

August 18, 2021
In this June 13, 2020, file photo, United States Military Academy graduating cadets wear face masks as they stand next to their socially distanced seats during commencement ceremonies in West Point, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, Pool) **FILE**

West Point teaching Marxism

Future officers at the U.S. Army's military academy at West Point are being taught several leftist courses that an active-duty military official says are part of Marxist indoctrination.

August 11, 2021