Lara Seligman is a national security reporter for The Wall Street Journal in Washington, where she covers the White House and the Pentagon. She previously spent four years at Politico as a defense reporter, where she covered the Covid-19 outbreak on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, the Afghanistan evacuation, and the Ukraine war, among other topics. Lara’s reporting on the military and the defense industry has taken her around the world, with time spent covering geopolitics in real time in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Lara previously covered the Pentagon and national security for Foreign Policy. She also has written for publications including the Washington Post and Defense News.
