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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 April 6, 2010 file photo, Sgt. Troy Bencke, right, points toward Afghan air force engineers as they work on an Mi-17 helicopter inside a hangar in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

U.S. exit threatens to ground Afghanistan air force

Afghanistan's fledgling air force gets most of its critical maintenance services from civilian contractors who will be accompanying U.S. military forces out of the country by September, ending America's 20-year presence in the country, raising fresh fears about the Kabul government's ability to prosecute the war against the Taliban and jihadist terror groups.

April 22, 2021
President Biden is facing pressure from all sides on the Pentagon's budget. Some fellow Democrats want him to increase military spending. Others want to slash it. (ASSOCIATED PRESS) **FILE**

GAO report sees U.S. military readiness slipping

As President Biden prepares to release the outlines of his first budget request to Congress, a just-released report from the Government Accountability Office says America's military services are not falling short of their readiness goals.

April 8, 2021
A cargo ship sails through the town of Ismailia, Egypt, Tuesday, March 30, 2021 as traffic resumed through the Suez canal after it was blocked by a massive ship that had been stuck sideways for nearly a week. (AP Photo/AP Photo/Ayman Aref))

Admiral Michael Gilday: Blocked Suez Canal caused problems for U.S. Navy

Maritime traffic at one of the world's busiest waterways ground to a halt for nearly a week recently when the 1,312-foot-long container ship Ever Given ran aground while passing through the Suez Canal. Hundreds of commercial ships were left stranded at the canal connecting the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.

April 5, 2021

New Marine Corps manual offers template for reimagined force

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger has set a goal to transform the Corps from a heavy land army into an agile naval expeditionary force, focusing on adversaries like China. That vision got a little more real last week with the publication of a detailed new training manual mapping out how the service hopes to get from here to there.

April 4, 2021
Ukrainian servicemen walk along a snow covered trench guarding their position at the frontline near Vodiane, about 750 kilometers (468 miles) south-east of Kyiv, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) **FILE**

U.S. rushes to reassure Kyiv as tensions with Russia mount

The U.S. is expressing growing alarm over reports that Russian military forces are deploying along their border with Ukraine, as a largely frozen conflict has heated up again in recent months between the Kyiv government and separatist forces in the east strongly back by Moscow.

April 1, 2021