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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 photo released Thursday, June 10, 2021, by the Iranian army, Iranian warships seen in the Atlantic Ocean. Iran has dispatched two warships to the Atlantic Ocean, a rare mission to demonstrate the country's maritime power, state TV reported Thursday, without specifying the vessels' final destination. (Iranian Army via AP) **FILE**

Iran will send ships to Panama Canal in military mission

Iran will dispatch warships to the Panama Canal this year, Iranian officials vowed Thursday in a sign that Tehran seeks to expand its military footprint far beyond the Middle East and into America's backyard.

January 12, 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin leads a cabinet meeting via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin replaces commander in Ukraine after only three months

Russian President Vladimir Putin has demoted the commander leading his forces in Ukraine after only three months on the job, replacing him with the country's top general who is now expected to produce battlefield success where all others have failed.

January 11, 2023
A Chinese J-11 military fighter jet flies above the Taiwan Strait near Pingtan, the closest land of mainland China to the island of Taiwan, in southeastern China's Fujian Province on Aug. 5, 2022. The U.S. military says a Chinese navy fighter jet flew dangerously close to an Air Force reconnaissance plane over the South China Sea earlier in December 2022, forcing the American pilot to maneuver to avoid a collision. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China again stages large-scale military exercises around Taiwan

Dozens of Chinese aircraft and four warships were spotted operating around Taiwan over the weekend as Beijing kicked off its first large-scale military exercises in the region of the new year, showing no let-up in the high tempo of threatening maneuvers in 2022.

January 9, 2023