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Bill Gertz

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

Inside the Ring: Ransom paid for Bergdahl

The Pentagon is under fire for making a ransom payment to an Afghan earlier this year as part of a failed bid to win the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, according to U.S. officials.

November 19, 2014

Inside the Ring: Cyber war games held

U.S. Cyber Command recently conducted large-scale digital war games that involved cyberattacks and defense against foreign strikes on critical infrastructure.

November 12, 2014

Inside the Ring: Nuclear forces need fixing

U.S. strategic nuclear forces, both weapons and personnel, are experiencing serious problems that must be addressed urgently.

November 5, 2014

Inside the Ring: Taiwan submarine plan sinks as Pentagon yields to China

The Obama administration is backing away from a 2001 commitment to help Taiwan acquire submarines to defend the island from Chinese attack.

October 29, 2014

Inside the Ring: B-52s buzz over Europe, and Swedes hunt for Russian sub

Large-scale NATO war games underway in Europe this week include the deployment of B-52 nuclear-capable bombers, as non-NATO member Sweden hunts for a Russian mini-submarine in its territorial waters.

October 22, 2014

Inside the Ring: Chinese company tried to hack NSA using U.S. defense contractor

Chinese telecommunications equipment giant Huawei Technologies sought to gain access to National Security Agency computer networks this year in a failed cyberespionage attack, U.S. officials said.

October 15, 2014

Inside the Ring: Al Qaeda, Islamic State teaming up

U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria have prompted several central al Qaeda groups, including its two most dangerous regional affiliates, to reconsider their opposition to the ultraviolent offshoot organization.

October 8, 2014

Inside the Ring: For the first time, Russia has more deployed nuclear warheads than U.S.

Russia now has 1,643 warheads deployed on intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles and heavy bombers. The United States has 1,642, said a new State Department fact sheet.

October 1, 2014

Inside the Ring: Death of a terrorist?

U.S. military and intelligence officials are trying to confirm intelligence and social media reports that the leader of the al Qaeda offshoot in Syria known as the Khorasan Group was killed in Monday's airstrikes.

September 24, 2014

Inside the Ring: CIA goes to war

Behind the scenes of the U.S. military preparations for airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against the al Qaeda offshoot terrorist group Islamic State, the CIA is gearing up for new drone strikes and a surge in intelligence-gathering operations to support it, according to U.S. officials.

September 17, 2014

Inside the Ring: An imminent beheading?

Counterterrorism officials are concerned that the Islamic State will behead a British hostage next week, noting consistencies in the terrorist group's decapitations of two American journalists.

September 10, 2014

Inside the Ring: Terrorist tanker training?

U.S. intelligence agencies last month reported that a group of 22 Yemeni-Americans were training in Houston to be seamen on oil tankers, raising terrorism concerns over the unusual activity.

September 3, 2014

Inside the Ring: B-2 bombers’ ‘messages’

Three B-2 strategic nuclear bombers completed a tour of duty in Guam this week, as tensions remained high between the United States and China over what the Pentagon called a "dangerous" Chinese fighter-jet intercept of a U.S. surveillance plane last week.

August 27, 2014

Inside the Ring: Quieting Islamic State’s tweets

U.S. counterterrorism officials say Twitter's crackdown on tweets from the Islamic State is complicating efforts to identify the terrorist group's key members and activities by intelligence agencies that increasingly use social media to spy on the militants.

August 20, 2014