Yochi Dreazen

Yochi Dreazen is the Senior National Security Correspondent for National Journal, covering a wide range of military, foreign policy and intelligence-related topics. He writes long-form features for the print edition of the magazine as well as breaking news and analytical articles for its website. Prior to joining National Journal, Dreazen spent 11 years at The Wall Street Journal, most recently as the paper’s military correspondent. He was born in Chicago, and later attended the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn, he edited the award-winning daily campus newspaper and graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1999 with degrees in History and English. He was hired by The Wall Street Journal immediately after graduation. Dreazen arrived in Iraq in April 2003 with the Fourth Infantry Division, and spent the next two-and-a-half years living in Baghdad as The Wall Street Journal's main Iraq correspondent. Dreazen has made more than 30 lengthy trips to Iraq and Afghanistan and has spent a total of nearly five years on the ground in the two countries, mostly doing front-line combat embeds. He has reported from more than 40 countries, including Japan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan, Russia and China. In 2010, Dreazen received the Military Reporters & Editors association’s top award for domestic military reporting in a large publication for a series of articles about military suicide and the psychological traumas impacting veterans of the two long wars. He appears regularly on TV and radio programs like NPR's "Diane Rehm Show" and PBS' "Washington Week with Gwen Ifill," and gives frequent lectures about journalism, the wars and current events. Dreazen lives in Washington with his wife, Annie Rosenzweig Dreazen, and their beloved Golden Retriever, Charlie