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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

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin attends a meeting of the Ukraine Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP)

Pentagon IG slams Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for secret hospital stays

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's failure to alert the White House and his own senior staff about his hospitalization early last year after complications from a surgical procedure "unnecessarily" risked national security, the Pentagon's inspector general said in a critical report released Wednesday.

January 15, 2025
FORD-CLASS AIRCRAFT CARRIERS The Next Generation The successor of the Nimitz-Class is the USS Gerald R. Ford. It's a new class of carrier, expected for delivery in 2015. It's represents the Navy's focus on super-advanced technology, efficiency and capabilities. An advanced reactor design gives it more power than the Nimitz class. It has stealth features to help reduce radar profile. For defense, a Ford-Class carrier features an evolved missile system and powerful AN/SPY-3 dual-band radar. Even the way it launches planes has changed – the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) replaces steam pistons with powerful magnets to launch jets. All these technologies and more makes Ford-Class carriers the premier assets for crisis response and early decisive striking power in a major combat operation. (U.S. Navy photo illustration courtesy of Newport News Shipbuilding/Released)

Biden says planned U.S. Navy carriers will be named for Clinton, Bush

President Biden on Monday announced that two future U.S. aircraft carriers will be named after two men who preceded him into the White House: Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Mr. Bush and his late father, President George H.W. Bush, will become the first father and son to have aircraft carriers named after them.

January 13, 2025
Poland's Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz speaks about a program of strengthening the defense of NATO'S eastern flank in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, May, 27, 2024, during a presentation of a program to upgrade the security of Poland's border with Russia and Belarus, which is also European Union's eastern border. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish defense chief says alliance backing Ukraine should continue under Trump

The Ukraine Defense Contact Group, an alliance of more than 50 countries providing military support for Kyiv's fight against a Russian invasion force, should continue even after Donald Trump is inaugurated as president on January 20, Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said following the 25th meeting of the group this week.

January 10, 2025