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.
Ukraine's defense minister on Thursday likened his country's month-long war with Russia to the central struggle of good versus evil in J.R.R. Tolkein's fantasy classic "The Lord of the Rings."
President Biden arrived in Europe Wednesday for a series of high-level meetings on the war in Ukraine, with allies preparing to green-light a new round of sanctions on Russia and new deployments of NATO troops to Eastern European countries with a front-row seat to the fighting.
NATO will announce four new battle groups to be based in eastern Europe on Thursday when President Biden and other leaders meet in Brussels for a summit to address Russia's monthlong invasion of Ukraine.
Russian warships in the Sea of Azov are now shelling the crucial port city of Mariupol, which has become the country's most urgent humanitarian emergency since the invasion of Ukraine began almost a month ago.
A Russian official says foreign governments have seized nearly 80 aircraft from Russian airlines since they started implementing sanctions against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.
The last of the four global oilfield services companies in Russia has suspended operations there in response to U.S. and Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine.
The Marine Corps has identified four Marines who were killed Friday when their Osprey aircraft crashed in a storm while on a training flight in Norway.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin accused Russia of committing war crimes by deliberately targeting civilians since the invasion of Ukraine began a month ago.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin downplayed reports that Russia has deployed hypersonic missiles in its campaign against Ukraine, telling CBS News he doesn't see such a move as a "game-changer" for the stalled invasion.
Ukraine has come out ahead in the first stage of Russia's campaign to conquer its smaller neighbor, raising the possibility of a lengthy, bloody stalemate, military analysts say.
Almost 10% of the population of the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol has fled in the past week as it has faced a relentless artillery barrage from Russian invaders.
The top U.S. general in the Middle East is casting doubts on reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin is looking to Syria to send reinforcements to the war on Ukraine.
Russian forces are believed to have stopped at least 200 to 300 ships from departing the Black Sea since the invasion of Ukraine began, causing major disruptions to one of the primary global trade routes for grain from a region once called "the world's breadbasket."
President Eisenhower, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, five-star Army Gen. Omar Bradley and Alwyn Cashe, a soldier who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor last year for heroism in Iraq are among the nearly 100 possible new candidate names for nine Army installations that are being stripped of their current names honoring Confederate generals and officials.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has largely stalled on all fronts, with units making only minimal progress on land, at sea and in the air in recent days as they suffer heavy losses from well-coordinated resistance forces, British military officials said Thursday.
The White House was on the defensive Wednesday as criticism mounted that President Biden should be doing more to help Ukraine fend off Russia's invasion.
Russian warships are shelling towns on the outskirts of Odesa, a major port city on the Black Sea, in the latest military campaign in Moscow's three-week-old invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine could become an officially neutral country with its own military, along the lines of Sweden or Austria, as a compromise to help find a diplomatic solution to the three-week-old conflict that has claimed thousands of lives, the Kremlin official who leads Russia's delegation to the talks said Wednesday.
Russia's long-range guns stepped up their bombardment of Ukraine's capital city of Kyiv Tuesday, even as Russia's armored invasion forces remain bogged down by a stiffer-than-expected Ukrainian opposition and their own tactical and strategic failings, U.S. military officials said.