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Mike Glenn

mglenn@washingtontimes.com

Mike Glenn grew up on Navy bases as the son of a career sailor but then decided to annoy his father and joined the Army after he graduated from high school in the Dallas area. He did a hitch as an enlisted soldier in Germany during the Cold War, where he spent a considerable amount of time in the field on maneuvers. After leaving the Army, he moved back home to northeast Texas and entered the University of Texas at Arlington where he studied history. He also took Army ROTC classes at UT Arlington and upon graduation received a commission as a Second Lieutenant. He was assigned to the 3rd Cavalry Regiment at Fort Bliss in El Paso and took his platoon to the Middle East where he fought in the Gulf War. He got into journalism after Operation Desert Storm and has worked at newspapers and magazines throughout Texas. He joined The Washington Times from the Houston Chronicle. He can be reached at mglenn@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Mike Glenn

A Nato AWACS plane takes off the NATO Airbase in Geilenkirchen, Germany, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. AWACS planes flying out of Geilenkirchen to patrol over Romania and Poland. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Air Force looks for AWACS surveillance plane replacement

The U.S. Air Force is looking Down Under as it prepares to ditch its workhorse but aging fleet of E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system aircraft, popularly known as AWACS. The surveillance planes have been used for decades in campaigns big and small to monitor patrol and monitor large sections of airspace and coordinate air, sea, and land forces in battle

April 27, 2022
A destroyed tank and a damaged apartment building from heavy fighting are seen in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

U.S., allied military leaders defy Kremlin with new Ukraine aid plans

Russia's top diplomat and America's top defense official traded charges of saber-rattling Tuesday, as military leaders from the U.S. and more than three dozen allies met in Germany to discuss how to speed up arms flows to Ukraine as it seeks to halt a coming offensive by invading Russian troops in the east and south.

April 26, 2022
Finland's Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto, left and his Swedish counterpart Ann Linde take part in a joint press conference with Sweden's Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist, and his Finnish counterpart Antti Kaikkonen, in Stockholm, Sweden, Feb. 2, 2022, after talks on European security. Throughout the Cold War and in the decades since it ended, nothing could persuade Finns and Swedes that they would be better off joining NATO, until now. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has profoundly changed Europe’s security outlook, including for Nordic neutrals Finland and Sweden, where support for joining NATO has surged to record levels. (Anders Wiklund, TT News Agency via AP) **FILE**

Russian invasion of Ukraine making NATO membership popular in Sweden

A majority of Swedes for the first time now favor abandoning their country's policy of neutrality in favor of joining the NATO alliance as a full member, according to a new poll. The change, which upends decades of military non-alignment for Stockholm, comes as Russia's invasion of Ukraine has sparked a surge in public support for the Western military alliance.

April 21, 2022
Sig Sauer responded to the U.S. Army's request for a battlefield upgrade for troops by supplying 6.8 mm hybrid ammunition, a lightweight machine gun, a rifle, and suppressors. The system is referred to as NGSW. (Image: Sig Sauer, press release, for the Next Generation Squad Weapons)

Army chooses new rifle for combat troops

The Army has picked a replacement weapon for the venerable M-4 carbine, the service's standard-issue weapon that was wielded by combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan for several years.

April 19, 2022
A display case of photos is seen outside the Chinese Embassy in Honiara, Solomon Islands, on April 2, 2022. Australia’s Minister for International Development and the Pacific Zed Seselja flew to the Solomon Islands on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, in a bid to prevent a China military presence in the South Pacific Island nation. (AP Photo/Charley Piringi) **FILE**

U.S. officials to visit Solomon Islands amid China concerns

The Biden administration is sending State Department and Pentagon officials to the Solomon Islands amid concerns that the South Pacific nation is cementing a security alliance with China that could prove detrimental to its traditional partners -- the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

April 18, 2022
The luxury yacht "Dilbar" lies completely covered in the Blohm+Voss dock Elbe 17 in Hamburg, Germany, Wedenesday, April 13, 2022. After weeks of investigation, the BKA has found the true owner of the super yacht "Dilbar" lying in the port of Hamburg. It is a sister of the oligarch Usmanov, who is also subject to sanctions because of the war in Ukraine. (Jonas Walzberg/dpa via AP)

Russian superyacht nabbed by German authorities

A Russian billionaire with close ties to the highest power brokers in Moscow lost assets worth as much as $735 million in one fell swoop this week after German authorities impounded his superyacht, the Dilbar.

April 15, 2022