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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

Houthi fighters march during a rally of support for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and against the U.S. strikes on Yemen outside Sanaa on Jan. 22, 2024. Russia and China on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, accused the United States and Britain of illegally attacking military sites used by Yemen’s Houthi rebels to launch missiles at commercial vessels in the Red Sea, disrupting global shipping. (AP Photo, File)

No sign of rebound in Red Sea traffic after Houthi attacks, top U.S. admiral says

Missile and drone attacks from Yemen's Iran-allied Houthi rebels have cut commercial maritime shipping in half in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, and the top U.S. naval commander in the region says he sees little appetite among shippers to return in significant numbers to the vital waterway despite a major protection operation by U.S. and allied forces.

August 7, 2024
Commissioner-General of the U.N. agency for Palestinian Refugees Philippe Lazzarini speaks during a news conference in Beirut, Lebanon, May 27, 2024. On Monday, June 24, Israelis who were taken hostage or lost loved ones during Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack filed suit against the United Nations agency that aids Palestinians, claiming it has helped finance the militants by paying agency staffers in U.S. dollars and thereby funneling them to money-changers in Gaza who allegedly give a cut to Hamas. Lazzarini said Tuesday, June 25, that he learned of the case only through the media. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) **FILE**

U.N. fires 9 employees in Gaza who may have taken part in deadly Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel

The United Nations on Monday fired nine employees of UNRWA, its Palestinian relief agency, after an internal probe concluded they may have taken part in the Oct. 7 Hamas rampage into southern Israel that killed about 1,200 people -- mostly civilians -- and resulted in hundreds of others taken hostage. Israel said the move barely addressed the problems at the agency.

August 5, 2024
Alsu Kurmasheva, second from left, stands with Paul Whelan, second from right, and Evan Gershkovich, right, after they arrived at Kelly Field after being released by Russia, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Several Americans are still held in Russia after high-profile prisoner swap

A former teacher at the Anglo-American School in Moscow is among half a dozen detained American citizens left behind in Russia following a dramatic multination prisoner exchange on Thursday that saw the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and two other Americans.

August 2, 2024
Work is undertaken on the flight deck of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales at HMNB Portsmouth, in Portsmouth, England, on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP) **FILE**

Some U.K. Royal Navy officers going on strike for better pay

A division of the Royal Navy that provides logistics support to the British fleet at sea is going on strike this month because its officers are "overworked, underpaid and undervalued," according to a union representing U.K. mariners.

August 2, 2024
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism ranking member Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., left, sitting next to Chair Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., right, speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2024, to examine forced labor in prisons. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Blue-ribbon defense panel says U.S. not prepared for major war

Facing its most dire security threat since the end of World War II, the U.S. is burdened by inadequate resources, a failing defense industrial base and a national strategy that hasn't prepared it to take on the combined challenge of near-peer adversaries like China and Russia and aggressive rogue states such as Iran and North Korea, according to a new report by a blue-ribbon bipartisan panel of defense experts.

July 30, 2024