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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

Colin Kahl was national security advisor to then-Vice President Biden during the Obama administration and will now be undersecretary of defense for policy, one of the top three civilian jobs at the Pentagon. (Associated Press)

Colin Kahl confirmed by Senate for Pentagon policy position

President Biden got his choice for the Pentagon's top policy job on Tuesday after Republican absences on Capitol Hill meant he didn't need to call on his vice president to break a looming confirmation vote tie in the Senate.

April 27, 2021
In this photo released on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, missiles are launched in a drill in Iran. Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard forces on Friday held a military exercise involving ballistic missiles and drones in the country's central desert, state TV reported, amid heightened tensions over Tehran's nuclear program and a U.S. pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic. (Iranian Revolutionary Guard/Sepahnews via AP) **FILE**

Keep sanctions on Iranian missiles in nuke talks, group urges

President Biden should retain the Trump administration's sanctions on Iran's expansive ballistic missile programs even as it reaches out to Tehran to rejoin the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, a leading conservative think tank said in a new report Tuesday.

April 27, 2021
In this April 6, 2010 file photo, Sgt. Troy Bencke, right, points toward Afghan air force engineers as they work on an Mi-17 helicopter inside a hangar in Kabul, Afghanistan.  (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

U.S. exit threatens to ground Afghanistan air force

Afghanistan's fledgling air force gets most of its critical maintenance services from civilian contractors who will be accompanying U.S. military forces out of the country by September, ending America's 20-year presence in the country, raising fresh fears about the Kabul government's ability to prosecute the war against the Taliban and jihadist terror groups.

April 22, 2021
President Biden is facing pressure from all sides on the Pentagon's budget. Some fellow Democrats want him to increase military spending. Others want to slash it. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)  **FILE**

GAO report sees U.S. military readiness slipping

As President Biden prepares to release the outlines of his first budget request to Congress, a just-released report from the Government Accountability Office says America's military services are not falling short of their readiness goals.

April 8, 2021
A cargo ship sails through the town of Ismailia, Egypt, Tuesday, March 30, 2021 as traffic resumed through the Suez canal after it was blocked by a massive ship that had been stuck sideways for nearly a week. (AP Photo/AP Photo/Ayman Aref))

Admiral Michael Gilday: Blocked Suez Canal caused problems for U.S. Navy

Maritime traffic at one of the world's busiest waterways ground to a halt for nearly a week recently when the 1,312-foot-long container ship Ever Given ran aground while passing through the Suez Canal. Hundreds of commercial ships were left stranded at the canal connecting the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.

April 5, 2021