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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 Russian armored personnel carrier burns amid damaged and abandoned light utility vehicles after fighting in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. The city authorities said that Ukrainian forces engaged in fighting with Russian troops that entered the country's second-largest city on Sunday. (AP Photo/Marienko Andrew)

Russian forces remain stymied on Day 5 of invasion of Ukraine

Russia has poured nearly 75% of the combat power it assembled across its border into Ukraine, but Russian military advance remained bogged down Monday by a stiffer-than-expected resistance and what military experts say are some self-inflicted strategic wounds.

February 28, 2022
A Russian armored personnel carrier burns amid damaged and abandoned light utility vehicles after fighting in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. The city authorities said that Ukrainian forces engaged in fighting with Russian troops that entered the country's second-largest city on Sunday. (AP Photo/Marienko Andrew)

Pressured Putin hints at nukes but agrees to talks with Ukraine

Facing a wall of global opposition and unexpectedly fierce resistance from Ukrainian forces, Russian President Vladimir Putin played the nuclear card Sunday, ordering the country's vast nuclear arsenal be put on a "special combat readiness" status to persuade the U.S. and European nations not to come to Kyiv's aid.

February 27, 2022
Pope Francis, center, holds onto Monsignor Leonardo Sapienza as he walks down some steps during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, on Feb. 9, 2022. Pope Francis has canceled a visit Sunday to Florence and will not preside over Ash Wednesday commemorations next week because of what the Vatican said Friday was a flareup of “acute” knee pain. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) ** FILE **

Pope Francis visits Russian Embassy in Rome to appeal for peace

A day after President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, Pope Francis on Friday spent more than half an hour at the Russian Embassy to the Vatican where he expressed his concern about the widening war.

February 25, 2022
Ukrainian servicemen sit atop armored personnel carriers driving on a road in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday announced a military operation in Ukraine and warned other countries that any attempt to interfere with the Russian action would lead to "consequences you have never seen." (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Pentagon official: Russia wants to ‘decapitate’ Ukraine’s government

Russia's three-pronged ground attack into neighboring Ukraine, primarily targeting airports and military facilities such as barracks and ammo dumps, is the initial phase into what appears to be a push by the Kremlin to "decapitate" the pro-Western government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

February 24, 2022
A Ukrainian serviceman stands at his position at the line of separation between Ukraine-held territory and rebel-held territory near Svitlodarsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022. U.S. President Joe Biden announced the U.S. was ordering heavy financial sanctions against Russia, declaring that Moscow had flagrantly violated international law in what he called the "beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine." (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Biden imposes new sanctions as Putin escalates war in Ukraine

President Biden widened the slate of U.S. sanctions against Russia in response to military moves on Ukraine on Wednesday, but it was not enough to prevent Russian President Vladimir Putin from ordering a major escalation of his war against Ukraine.

February 23, 2022
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin welcomes Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba during a ceremony at the Pentagon, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Ukraine’s top diplomat meets with Pentagon officials

Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to send troops into breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine threatens the peace and prosperity of the trans-Atlantic community and attacks the very notion of an independent Ukraine, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Tuesday before a meeting at the Pentagon with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.

February 22, 2022