Guy Taylor

Guy Taylor is the National Security Editor at The Washington Times, overseeing the paper's State Department, Pentagon and intelligence coverage and driving the daily Threat Status newsletter. He has reported from dozens of countries and been a guest on the BBC, CNN, NPR, FOX, C-SPAN and The McLaughlin Group.

A series Mr. Taylor led on Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. election was recognized with a Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency, and a Society for Professional Journalists award. In 2012, he won a Virginia Press Association award reporting from Mexico.

Prior to joining The Times in 2011, Mr. Taylor was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Fund For Investigative Journalism. He wrote for a variety publications, from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to Salon, Reason, Prospect, the Daily Star of Beirut, the Jerusalem Post and the St. Petersburg Times. He also served as an editor at World Politics Review, wrote for America's Quarterly and produced videos and features for Agence France-Presse.

Mr. Taylor holds an M.S. in Global Security Studies from Angelo State University and a B.A. from Clark University. He was part of a team who won a Society of Professional Journalists award for their reporting on the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

He can be reached at gtaylor@washingtontimes.com.

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Articles by Guy Taylor

Taiwanese resist U.S. system to detect Chinese missiles, officials say

A delegation of high-level Taiwanese diplomats said Thursday that many of their own people oppose a major trade deal with mainland China, and also made a rare public acknowledgment of rising domestic resistance to U.S. pressure to expand a radar system for detecting long-range missile threats from Beijing. Published June 5, 2014

Bowe Bergdahl walked away before, Army investigation found

A classified Pentagon report on Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's dissappearance in Afghanistan outlined how the soldier had wandered away from his unit on two occasions prior to going missing in June 2009. Published June 5, 2014

Taliban calls Bergdahl prisoner exchange ‘great victory’; video of swap goes viral

A Taliban-produced video that juxtaposes the handover of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl to U.S. Special Forces with images of five freed former Guantanamo inmates in Qatar went viral Wednesday across the Pakistani, Afghan and English-language media. Published June 4, 2014

Congress twice rejected release of Taliban from Gitmo in trade for Bergdahl

President Obama's aides met with unanimous opposition from Congress when they first raised the possibility of releasing five Taliban guerrillas from Guantanamo Bay in 2011 and 2012, and administration officials publicly and repeatedly vowed to return to Capitol Hill before making any final moves. Published June 4, 2014

Clinton promised to consult Hill on Gitmo swaps

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote a letter to leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees in January 2012, assuring them that the decision to release five former Taliban commanders from Guantanamo Bay would only be made "after consultation with Congress." Published June 4, 2014

White House defends keeping Congress in dark on Bergdahl

White House security advisers pushed back for a second time Tuesday against Republican claims that President Obama overstepped the bounds of executive authority by not informing Congress about the deal being cut with the Taliban to releasing five Guantanamo inmates in exchange for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. Published June 3, 2014

Pentagon knew Bergdahl’s whereabouts but didn’t risk rescue for ‘deserter’

EXCLUSIVE: The Pentagon knew where Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was being held captive — down to how many gunmen were guarding him — but special operators shelved rescue missions because they didn't want to risk casualties for a man they believed to be a "deserter." Published June 2, 2014

Obama’s Afghanistan pullout may end domination of drones

President Obama's call to cut the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan to 5,000 troops in 18 months will end an era of American drone superiority over the region and jeopardize hard-fought gains against al Qaeda just as the terrorist movement's original core is rising again, former senior defense officials and national security sources say. Published May 29, 2014

Fears of religious war rise in Central African Republic after attack on Catholic church

The killings of at least 30 people Wednesday by Muslim rebels who stormed a Catholic church in the Central African Republic marked the latest escalation of religious violence gripping the conflict-torn nation. Published May 28, 2014

Royce presses for stronger push against Boko Haram

The Obama administration deepened the U.S. military's involvement in the battle to contain the terrorist group Boko Haram Wednesday, announcing the deployment of 80 American troops to help in the search for more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the shadowy Nigeria-based Islamist group last month. Published May 21, 2014

Al Qaeda terrorists lurk in shadows in Afghanistan, waiting for U.S. withdraw

Al Qaeda is operating a "shadow army" inside Afghanistan to conceal its numbers and the scope of its operations, while the Taliban is on the verge of major resurgence as U.S. military forces prepare to depart, former senior Pentagon officials and leading counterterrorism analysts told Congress on Tuesday. Published May 20, 2014

Hill to hear from survivor of Boko Haram terror

A 15-year-old Nigerian girl will appear on Capitol Hill Wednesday to tell lawmakers the harrowing story of how she survived when three armed men belonging to the shadowy Islamist group Boko Haram murdered her father and brother in front of her at point-blank range. Published May 20, 2014

Hacking indictments could open new phase of confrontation between U.S., China

The Justice Department's indictments of five Chinese army officials accused of hacking U.S. companies escalated cybersecurity tensions between Washington and Beijing on Monday and opened what some analysts and U.S. lawmakers called a new phase in the confrontation between the world's two most powerful nations. Published May 19, 2014

China whacks Justice Dept.’s ‘ungrounded and absurd’ hacking charges

China slammed the U.S. Monday for indicting five Chinese Army officials on hacking charges, saying Washington's move was "ungrounded and absurd" and that Beijing is responding by halting participation in joint cyber talks pursued by officials from both sides over the past year. Published May 19, 2014

U.S. turns attention back to Asia as Vietnam violently protests China’s oil rig move

Violent anti-Chinese demonstrations in Vietnam are refocusing attention on Beijing's regional muscle-flexing, with China appearing ready to exacerbate tensions with a number of its neighbors while the United States is distracted by Ukraine and other crises. Published May 15, 2014

U.S. corporate giants fear blowback from sanctions on Russia over Ukraine

The Obama administration claims it can use economic sanctions to punish Russian aggression in Eastern Europe, but the strategy has quickly run into problems, say analysts, who note that too aggressive a move by the White House could result in blowback on major American companies with close ties to the Russian economy. Published May 13, 2014

Kidnappings, raid from Nigeria terror group Boko Haram draw U.S., British attention

British authorities announced Thursday they will send some special forces to aid in the search for nearly 300 kidnapped schoolgirls in Nigeria, where a team of U.S. military, law enforcement and diplomatic advisers has been dispatched to help the government in the effort. Published May 8, 2014