Yochi J. Dreazen
Yochi Dreazen is a senior correspondent for National Journal Group covering military affairs and national security. Prior to joining National Journal, Dreazen reported for the Wall Street Journal, most recently as its military correspondent. During his 11 years at the Journal, Dreazen made more than 30 lengthy trips to Iraq and Afghanistan, spending a total of five years on the ground in the two countries, primarily doing frontline combat embeds and other reporting from the two war zones. He first arrived in Iraq with the Fourth Infantry Division in April 2003 and spent the next two-and-a-half years in Baghdad as the Journal's main Iraq correspondent. Dreazen has reported from more than 40 countries, including Japan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan, Russia and China. A native of Chicago, Dreazen attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he edited the award-winning daily campus newspaper and graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1999 with degrees in History and English. In 2010, he received the Military Reporters & Editors Association’s top award for domestic military reporting for a series of articles about military suicide and the psychological traumas impacting veterans of the two long wars. Dreazen lives in Washington with his wife Annie and their beloved Golden Retriever, Charlie.
