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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

Palestinian children who fled with their parents from their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, gather in the backyard of an UNRWA school, in Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

Pentagon officials slam new Israeli laws blocking controversial U.N. relief agency

The Defense Department on Tuesday condemned a pair of bills passed this week by Israel's parliament that would effectively bar UNRWA, the U.N.'s primary Palestinian relief agency, from operating inside the country. Biden administration officials said the legislation, passed Monday in the Knesset, could trigger an even greater crisis inside the Gaza Strip.

October 29, 2024
German's Defense Minister Boris Pistorius attends a meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force of the U.S. Gen. CQ Brown and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Ramstein Air Base in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. (Andreas Arnold/dpa via AP)

German warships avoiding Red Sea amid threats from Houthi rebels

Civilian shipping and oil companies such as Maersk and BP aren't the only ones telling their merchant vessels to avoid the Red Sea for fear of being attacked by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels of Yemen. The German government this week ordered two of its warships to go around Africa because of the threats, according to the German magazine Der Spiegel.

October 29, 2024
In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, a member from the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing prepares to marshal a C-17 Globemaster lll as another C-17 taxis onto the flightline Aug. 23, 2021, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. (Airman 1st Class Kylie Barrow/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Pricey soap dispensers on Air Force planes lead to parts probe

Complaints that the Air Force was being overcharged for bathroom soap dispensers in its C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft prompted a Defense Department audit that steered toward finding that the service wasn't paying "fair and reasonable" prices for many of the fleet's spare parts.

October 29, 2024
Smoke and fire rise from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Israel launches strikes against Iranian military targets

Israel on Friday struck military targets in Iran, a long-awaited response to what officials in Jerusalem said were months of drone and missile attacks by Iran and its proxy network across the Middle East.

October 25, 2024
Israeli Defense Forces soldiers work on their tank near the Israel-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov) ** FILE **

Pentagon IG investigating how Israel stores and uses U.S. military hardware

The Defense Department's inspector general has launched an audit of how Israel maintains, stores and uses the firepower and sensitive military hardware it has received from the United States since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks when Hamas launched a rampage into southern Israel that killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians.

October 25, 2024
A DJI Phantom 3 drone flies during a drone demonstration at a farm and winery in Cordova, Md., on June 11, 2015. China says it will prohibit the export of all unregulated civilian drones that could be used for military purposes or in terrorist activities and that certain drone features will be restricted as the East Asian country faces repeated Western criticism for its stance on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (AP photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Top Chinese drone maker DJI sues Pentagon over blacklisting, denies military links

The world's largest commercial drone manufacturer is taking on the Defense Department in a courtroom "Clash of the Titans" over a 2022 decision to put Shenzhen DJI Innovation Technology Co. -- better known as DJI -- on the Pentagon's list of restricted companies that have links to China's military and its Communist government.

October 24, 2024