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.
A former commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps and a retired Army general who once commanded all U.S. troops in Korea are among dozens of retired senior military officers publicly opposing a revived nuclear deal with Iran, amid signs the Biden administration and other world powers may be close to an agreement with Tehran.
The Kremlin's decision to appoint Army Gen. Alexander Dvornikov as commander of the war in Ukraine is an indication of Russia's inability to coordinate military activity since the invasion in late February, British military intelligence said Wednesday.
The Republican members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are pressing the Biden administration to step up its information-sharing with Ukraine following Russia's invasion in late February, which has cost thousands of lives and triggered Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II.
Pentagon officials say they are considering enhanced artillery support to Kyiv, enabling Ukrainian forces to take on invading Russians at much greater distances than with weapons such as a Javelin anti-tank missile.
India remains a vital partner to the U.S. in helping to counter China's increasingly aggressive moves in the Indo-Pacific region, even though New Delhi has declined to take a strong stand in the Ukrainian crisis against Russia, New Delhi's close ally since the earliest days of independence.
Four U.S. military personnel are being evaluated for possible traumatic brain injuries after they were injured in an artillery strike on a base in Syria.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday denounced Russia for a missile strike that hit a train station in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 39 people and wounding more than 300.
The Defense Department this week confirmed it successfully tested its Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) missile, sending a prototype flying at more than five times the speed of sound for what it said was an "extended period of time."
The U.N. General Assembly on Thursday booted Russia from the world body's lead human rights agency to protest Moscow's invasion of neighboring Ukraine and the brutal tactics reportedly used against Ukrainian civilians caught up in the fighting.
Novaya Gazeta, Russia's oldest independent newspaper, has launched a European edition following a Moscow crackdown that forced its Russian version to close.
Admiral Linda L. Fagan is on course to be the first woman in history to lead one of the U.S. military services after President Biden on Tuesday nominated her to be the next commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday questioned the effectiveness of the United Nations if Russia, as a permanent member of the Security Council, can simply veto any action proposed by the world body.
U.S. officials said Monday that a more than $1.6 billion deal to sell up to eight F-16 fighter jets to Bulgaria is not directly related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine but could allow the NATO member to turn over its fleet of Russian-made MiG-29 jets to Kyiv.
Federal prosecutors accused three soldiers stationed at Fort Campbell, Tenn., of taking part in a gun-running conspiracy linked to gang activity in Chicago, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
An Algerian suspected extremist was released from custody over the weekend after having been detained for 20 years at the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Russia and Ukraine continued talks on Friday to end the conflict that began more than a month ago with Moscow's invasion of its smaller neighbor. On the same day, a team from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced they had to return to base after failing to rescue civilians trapped in the rubble of besieged city of Mariupol.
Ukrainian forces attacked a petroleum depot inside Russia, igniting a fire that caused several fuel tanks at the site to erupt into flames, the official Tass news agency said Friday.
Ukrainian troops have retaken a pair of towns located along the critical main supply route between Chernihiv and Kyiv, British military intelligence officials said Friday.