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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

US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin makes a speech at Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Appeals court rejects Austin bid to restore death penalty for 9/11 attackers

A military appeals court has rejected an attempt by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to overturn plea-bargain deals that would spare al Qaeda senior planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants in the 9/11 attacks from the death penalty, ruling the Pentagon chief lacked the standing to intervene in the fraught legal cases.

December 31, 2024
155 mm M795 artillery projectiles are stacked during the manufacturing process at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pa., on Thursday, April 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) **FILE**

Pentagon keeps the weapons flowing to Ukraine with Trump looming

The Defense Department is again dipping into its own weapon stores to provide Ukraine with more than $2 billion in military firepower in the waning weeks of the Biden administration, announcing a new tranche of aid to Kyiv including air defense weapons, artillery rounds and attack drones.

December 30, 2024
Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, during a visit in Pretoria, South Africa. Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Shiraaz Mohamed)

U.N. chief says Israel should leave positions it has occupied inside Syrian border

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called on Israel to withdraw its forces from the expanded buffer zone along the Golan Heights between Syria and Israel, saying only international peacekeeping troops should be based in the "Area of Separation" following the swift collapse of the Bashar Assad regime in Damascus earlier this month.

December 19, 2024
Maj. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the chief of the Russian military's radiation, chemical and biological protection unit, attends a briefing in Kubinka Patriot park, outside Moscow, Russia, on June 22, 2018. (AP Photo) **FILE**

Ukraine claims it killed a top Russian WMD general with a bomb in Moscow

A bomb placed inside a scooter parked outside a residential building in Moscow detonated Tuesday, killing a Russian general with a senior role in the country's weapons of mass destruction programs and his aide, in one of the most brazen attacks since the Kremlin launched its invasion of neighboring Ukraine nearly three years ago.

December 17, 2024
In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Stout handle mooring lines during the ship's return to home port at Naval Station Norfolk, in Norfolk, Va., in this Oct. 12, 2020, photo. (Spc. Jason Pastrick/U.S. Navy via AP, File)

Navy cuts boot camp length as more sailors fill the fleet

The Navy is cutting seven days out of its Basic Military Training program, from 10 weeks to nine, as improved recruiting numbers mean the sea service needs to push more sailors through boot camp at Great Lakes, Illinois.

December 12, 2024