Zachary Fryer-Biggs

Zachary Fryer-Biggs is the Managing Editor for news at Military.com. Zach has been a national security journalist for more than a decade, during that time working as Newsweek’s Pentagon reporter and an investigative reporter covering national security for the Center for Public Integrity, among other positions.

His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Reveal, The Daily Beast, and other outlets.

Email: Zach.Biggs@Military.com

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The American Public Deserves to Know What US Troops Are Doing in Europe

"We believe the American public, including those military families, has a right to know how and what their troops are doing."

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