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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

A Minuteman III booster is lowered into the tube at a launch facility in February. Air Force spokesman Ed Gulick said three options were being considered: keeping Minuteman IIIs through 2075; building a new silo-based ICBM; and deploying a mix of Minuteman IIIs and road-mobile missile. (U.S. Air Force)

Inside the Ring: Pentagon studies new mobile ICBM

The Air Force is nearing completion of plans for the next generation land-based strategic nuclear missiles that could be deployed on difficult-to-locate mobile launchers or in tunnels.

November 11, 2015
In this May 29, 2003 file photo, sailors man the rails as the USS Theodore Roosevelt is maneuvered into it's berth at the Norfolk Naval Station in Norfolk, Va. Defense Secretary Carter was flying Thursday onto the USS Theodore Roosevelt, an American aircraft carrier in the disputed waterway. Carter is using the visit to the USS Theodore Roosevelt to amplify the U.S. view that China is making excessive claims that nearly all of the South China Sea as its territory. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Inside the Ring: Stealth bomber race underway

The Pentagon announced last week it is developing a new strategic bomber that will carry both nuclear and conventional weapons, as both China and Russia are engaged in similar stealth bomber programs. The U.S. bomber, currently named Long Range Strike Bomber, or LRS-B, eventually will be called the B-3 when the first aircraft are deployed in the mid-2020s.

November 4, 2015
A Russian Su-24 bomber takes off on a night combat mission in Syria. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Russian military flights over Iraq questioned

Iraq's government has told the United States that it will not permit Russian military forces to conduct air and missile strikes inside the country. But Baghdad is allowing Russian military aircraft to overfly its territory to resupply its forces, despite a request from the United States to deny the flights.

October 28, 2015
House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy, South Carolina Republican, will focus his inquiries on former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's failures in Libya Thursday during her testimony. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: GOP to ‘torch’ Clinton on Benghazi

House Republicans on Thursday plan on using an unexpected approach to questioning former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the much-anticipated hearing of the special congressional committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi terror attacks.

October 21, 2015
Chinese President Xi Jinping talks about how the Chinese symbol for the word "people" resembles two sticks supporting each other as he speaks Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015, at a banquet in Seattle. Xi was in Seattle on his way to Washington, D.C., for a White House state dinner on Friday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Inside the Ring: Details of Chinese space weapons revealed

A forthcoming report by the congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission provides new details of China's space-weapons programs, dubbed counterspace arms, that are aimed at destroying or jamming U.S. satellites and limiting American combat operations around the world.

October 14, 2015
Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, talks with former Chinese President Jian Zemin during a parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender during World War II held in front of Tiananmen Gate, in Beijing, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Inside the Ring: Summit to seek expanded China military ties

Despite tensions over Chinese military cyberattacks and destabilizing island-building in the South China Sea, the Obama administration is hoping to use the visit next week by Chinese President Xi Jinping to expand military exchanges.

September 16, 2015
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had surgery on his foot, leading many to believe it led to his disappearance from public view. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Inside the Ring: North Korean underground missile complex detected

North Korea has developed an elaborate underground missile complex at its Sohae missile and space launch facility near the northwestern border with China, according to U.S. officials. The underground complex includes both facilities for preparing missiles for launch and storage areas that are connected by rail lines, according to officials familiar with intelligence reports of the complex.

August 19, 2015

Inside the Ring: NSA pinpoints China’s cyberattacks

A secret National Security Agency document has revealed the massive nature of China's cyberattacks against the United States, with nearly 700 intrusions in private-sector and government networks.

August 12, 2015
Gen. Michael Hayden, former CIA director. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)

Inside the Ring: Controversial Iran intel estimate revisited

One of the enduring questions about Iran's nuclear program, which could be answered under the nuclear deal reached in Vienna this month, is whether a highly debated 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Tehran's nuclear program was accurate or off the mark.

July 22, 2015
A B-52H Stratofortress is marshalled to a stop on Barksdale Air Force Base, La., July 2, 2015. Two B-52s flew an approximate 44-hour roundtrip mission to Australia where they integrated with Royal Australian Air Force ground forces in the region to conduct a conventional weapons exercise and perform a low approach at RAAF Base Tindal. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Benjamin Raughton)

Inside the Ring: U.S. Air Force message to China

Two B-52 bombers conducted a nonstop, long-range simulated mission to Australia recently that is part of the Pentagon's effort to bolster allies in Asia against a growing Chinese threat.

July 15, 2015