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 sole U.S. Navy aircraft carrier in the Indo-Pacific region is being sent to the Middle East to help provide security for the ongoing withdrawal of American troops and equipment from Afghanistan.
After a year when the Marine Corps Marathon became a virtual race instead of a mass gathering of runners on the streets of the District, the tradition, spectacle and excitement return as a live, in-person event on Oct. 29.
Space Force Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, who was sacked from his command following a book he wrote and comments he made about a growing influence of what he called "neo-Marxist-based" race and diversity programs in the military, has a powerful new ally on Capitol Hill: the senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
A two-star general who had formerly commanded an Illinois-based Army reserve unit was handed a likely career-ending reprimand following an investigation into reports that unit leaders had mishandled sexual harassment complaints.
Most of Arlington National Cemetery, including the iconic Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and former President John F. Kennedy's gravesite, will be fully opened in time for Memorial Day, officials said Tuesday.
As their five-month mission finally came to a close, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Monday saluted the National Guard troops who were deployed to stand watch over the U.S. Capitol grounds during a tumultuous period in American history.
Col. Lohmeier's abrupt dismissal earlier this month, which is now being investigated by the Air Force's own inspector general, is providing Exhibit A for those with questions of whether political correctness, "critical race theory" and anti-conservative biases are finding a home at the Pentagon.
The Pentagon will pay almost a half-billion dollars to the American subsidiary of an Italian shipbuilding giant to construct the second ship in the Navy's new Constellation-class guided-missile frigates.
Space Force Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, who was sacked from his command after decrying the growing influence of Marxist-influenced critical race theory in the military, has a powerful new ally on Capitol Hill: the senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Maine's congressional delegation is mobilizing after reports that the Defense Department will ask for only a single new destroyer in the fiscal 2022 Pentagon budget rather than two that had been expected.
The Department of the Air Force has suspended an investigation into comments made by a U.S. Space Force officer who was removed from command after telling a podcast of a book he wrote where he claimed critical race theory and neo-Marxism were gaining an unhealthy foothold in the military.
The Pentagon needs to concentrate on preparing to fight wars rather than imposing political beliefs on the troops, the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee said.
In a grim irony, more than 50 immigrants drowned when their boat capsized and sank off the coast of Tunisia on Monday just as the U.S. and several other countries in the region were starting a maritime exercise designed in part to test their ability to respond to mass migration and illicit trafficking.
Early in his Army career, Gen. Paul LaCamera was stationed at the Demilitarized Zone -- the famous depopulated strip of land strewn with deadly mines that divides North and South Korea. Any patrol along the border area was well within range of Pyongyang's fearsome arsenal of mortars and artillery.
Several members of Congress have come out in support of a U.S. Space Force officer who lost his command following comments he made on a podcast about his book that raises questions about the influence of Marxism and left-wing policies within the U.S. military.
The Army's next-generation midrange missile completed a 240-mile test flight, its longest to date, at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico last week.
Missile attacks against Israel by the Iran-backed Palestinian militant group Hamas prompted Pentagon officials to withdraw about 120 Department of Defense personnel from Israel on Thursday.
A former commander of the Army's elite Delta Force says media reports are mischaracterizing an open letter he and dozens of other retired American military generals released this week criticizing the Biden administration's policies and questioning the president's mental acuity.