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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

In this May 21, 2015, photo, F-16 Fighting Falcons sit in a field along Miami St. at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz. What amounts to a huge dirt parking lot with hundreds of workers is where thousands of U.S. military aircraft go to die. Some go slowly as valuable parts are removed over time for use on other aircraft still in the air, while others will become aerial targets. Some are even put back into duty with U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Matt York) **FILE**

U.S. approves sale of F-16 jets to Bulgaria

U.S. officials said Monday that a more than $1.6 billion deal to sell up to eight F-16 fighter jets to Bulgaria is not directly related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine but could allow the NATO member to turn over its fleet of Russian-made MiG-29 jets to Kyiv.

April 5, 2022
Ukrainian rescue workers carry an elderly woman under a destroyed bridge in Irpin, close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 1, 2022. Talks to stop the fighting in Ukraine resumed Friday, as another attempt to rescue civilians from the shattered and encircled city of Mariupol broke down and Russia accused the Ukrainians of a cross-border helicopter attack on an oil depot. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Red Cross unable to rescue residents of besieged Mariupol

Russia and Ukraine continued talks on Friday to end the conflict that began more than a month ago with Moscow's invasion of its smaller neighbor. On the same day, a team from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced they had to return to base after failing to rescue civilians trapped in the rubble of besieged city of Mariupol.

April 1, 2022
A soldier walks the amid the destruction caused after shelling of a shopping center last March 21 in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Pentagon adds to doubts about Russian withdrawal claims

The Defense Department is adding its voice to Western doubts over Russian claims that its forces are pulling back north of Kyiv, saying that is not what U.S. observers are seeing on the ground more than a month into Moscow's invasion of neighboring Ukraine.

March 31, 2022
Mariya, a local resident, looks for personal items in the rubble of her house, destroyed during fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces in the village of Yasnohorodka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Russia resumes shelling of Ukraine cities despite promise to scale back

Russian forces resumed their bombardment near Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities Wednesday, despite pledges just a day earlier to scale back violent military operations in what world leaders had hoped was a sign of a possible breakthrough in talks aimed at persuading the Kremlin to call off its five-week-old invasion.

March 30, 2022
German Bundeswehr soldiers of the NATO enhanced forward presence battalion waits to greet German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht upon her arrival at the Rukla military base some 100 kms (62.12 miles) west of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. Germany is sending additional troops to Lithuania in response to Russia's military build-up on the border with Ukraine and the worsening security situation in the Baltic states. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Germany minister talks bigger budgets in face of Russia’s Ukraine invasion

Russia's invasion of Ukraine brought about a complete sea change in German policy, a shift Chancellor Olaf Scholz in a Feb. 28 address called a "zeitenwende" -- the dawn of a new era. The country long condemned as a laggard in NATO for its skimpy defense budgets and cautious foreign policy suddenly was earmarking some $110 billion for the armed forces within weeks and pledged it would meet the NATO defense spending target of 2% of GDP.

March 29, 2022
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks with U.S. troops, Friday, March 18, 2022 at an Army training range in Bulgaria. Austin was in Bulgaria to meet with U.S. troops and to consult with top Bulgarian government officials. (AP Photo/Robert Burns)

Biden boosts Pentagon budget, but GOP wants more

The Biden administration asked Congress to approve a major boost in the Pentagon's budget to $773 billion in the next fiscal year, an increase of $30 billion from what President Biden asked for last year. But even with more than $10 billion to address the immediate crises in Afghanistan and Ukraine, senior Republicans on Capitol Hill say the administration's budget is inadequate to meet the twin challenges of an increasingly aggressive China and high inflation.

March 28, 2022
Heavy smoke billows after a Russian bombardment on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. With stunning speed, Russia's war in Ukraine is driving Western Europe into the outstretched arms of the United States again, and the embrace was especially apparent when President Joe Biden offered a major expansion of natural gas shipments to his European Union counterpart Friday. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Bruised Russia may be slashing war ambitions

After a month of fierce yet inconclusive fighting since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, events on the battlefield suggest Moscow may be narrowing its focus to the disputed Donbas region in the east rather than trying to overthrow the government in Kyiv and rule the entire country.

March 25, 2022
A Ukrainian soldier inspects a destroyed Russian APC after recent battle in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 24, 2022. The writing made by Ukrainian soldiers reads: 'Not to War'. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File) **FILE**

New Russian estimate of death toll from Ukraine far below Western numbers

The Russian government says 1,351 of its soldiers have died since the start of the invasion of Ukraine now in its second month. Moscow's figures of combat deaths, reported by the official Interfax news agency, are dramatically lower than estimates from NATO countries or Ukrainian officials.

March 25, 2022