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.
The USS Texas, the last remaining warship to have seen action in both world wars, is now making a stately towed journey from its former home at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site near Houston to a shipyard in Galveston for much-needed repairs.
Russia's state-owned energy company, Gazprom, has shut down its gas pipeline connecting Russia to Germany. While Moscow claims the cutoff is a temporary development required for maintenance, the move is raising fears about Europe's fuel supply with winter approaching.
Faulty mechanical gaskets known as O-rings are believed to be behind fuel leaks that led the Army to temporarily ground its fleet of about 400 Chinook cargo helicopters, according to the company that built the engines.
Ukraine's military may not have turned the tide in its 6-month-old war to repel a massive Russian invasion force, but it might have at least turned a corner on the battlefield.
The names of Robert E. Lee and other Confederate officers should be stripped from memorials and buildings at West Point and the U.S. Naval Academy, according to a just-released report of the Naming Commission established by Congress that had earlier recommended similar steps at several Army posts.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.'s atomic watchdog, is sending a team of technical experts to Ukraine to inspect a nuclear facility controlled by Russian forces since March even as its Ukrainian staff continues the day-to-day operations there.
Britain's biggest warship broke down soon after leaving port for naval exercises in the U.S. where crews were set to practice operating F-35B jets and drone operations off the coast of North America.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma on Friday both marked the first anniversary of a terrorist attack outside Hamid Karzai International Airport that killed 13 U.S. military personnel.
Demolition crews in Latvia brought down a 260-foot monument erected during the Cold War that was seen as a symbol of the Soviet occupation of the Baltic country.
U.S. military commanders will be required to consider how noncombatants could be affected by an air strike or other combat action on a future battlefield, following Thursday's release of a new Defense Department directive on mitigating harm to civilians.
Militants backed by Iran fired rockets at two coalition bases in northeast Syria on Wednesday, injuring three U.S. military personnel and triggering an American response that resulted in the destruction of the vehicles and equipment used to launch them.
The U.S. will ship Ukraine $3 billion worth of missiles, artillery rounds and drones in the latest military aid package intended to help Kyiv defend itself following Russia's invasion six months ago.
The Marines Corps will no longer rely solely on a tape test to find out if their personnel are "fit to fight." Instead, they will use more modern methods to determine a Marine's level of lean mass and fat mass.
A former senior Navy official is facing up to 25 years in prison after being convicted of steering contracts to a company in South Korea in exchange for cash, liquor and the services of prostitutes.
The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv is warning Americans to leave Ukraine over concerns that Russia will ramp up strikes against that country's government infrastructure and civilian facilities in the coming days.
Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded one of Russia's highest decorations to a woman who was killed in a car bombing outside Moscow late Saturday that may have been intended for her father, an ultranationalist who has sometimes been called "Putin's brain."
Russia's federal security service said Monday that Ukraine's spy agency is responsible for Saturday's car bomb attack that killed the daughter of a prominent Russian nationalist over his role as an adviser to President Vladimir Putin.
The United States and South Korea on Monday kicked off a combined arms exercise that had been scaled back in recent years over concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic and after failed attempts for a rapprochement with North Korea over Pyongyang's ambitions to become a nuclear power.