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Mike Glenn

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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

New Marine Corps manual offers template for reimagined force

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger has set a goal to transform the Corps from a heavy land army into an agile naval expeditionary force, focusing on adversaries like China. That vision got a little more real last week with the publication of a detailed new training manual mapping out how the service hopes to get from here to there.

April 4, 2021
Ukrainian servicemen walk along a snow covered trench guarding their position at the frontline near Vodiane, about 750 kilometers (468 miles) south-east of Kyiv, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, March 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) **FILE**

U.S. rushes to reassure Kyiv as tensions with Russia mount

The U.S. is expressing growing alarm over reports that Russian military forces are deploying along their border with Ukraine, as a largely frozen conflict has heated up again in recent months between the Kyiv government and separatist forces in the east strongly back by Moscow.

April 1, 2021
In this March 13, 2013 photo, Maj. Gen. Paul LaCamera, new Commanding General of the 4th Infantry Division and Fort Carson to LaCamera is photographed at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colo. Preparing for peace is a major shift for LaCamera and his soldiers. The general was among the first American combat troops into Afghanistan in 2001. In the years since, he and Fort Carson's nearly 25,000 other troops have been commuting to war, with all-too-brief stops at home between fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Mark Reis) MAGS OUT

Army defends its role in Indo-Pacific struggle for influence

As U.S. strategists ponder the best way to carry out the new "great-power" challenge posed by China, the Army insists it has a vital role to play in any future military operations in the crucial Indo-Pacific region, even with the oceans and vast distances that would seem to favor the Navy and Air Force.

March 30, 2021
Mike Rogers, Alabama Republican. (Screen grab from http://mikerogers.house.gov/) ** FILE **

Mike Rogers pushes back against liberal drive for defense cuts

Even as a number of Democrats on Capitol Hill are urging President Biden to slash the Pentagon's budget, the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee says the threat from an aggressive China means the U.S. military actually needs an inflation-adjusted 3-to-5% increase in the coming fiscal year.

March 22, 2021
Engineer Harold Graham, of Buffalo, N.Y., glides over a parked car during a demonstration of a one-man, rocket-powered jet pack, outside of the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., June 16, 1961. The demonstration, sponsored by the Army, draws a crowd of Pentagon workers. The control tower at left is used in directing helicopter traffic to and from the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Henry Burroughs) **FILE**

U.S. military looking for a few good flying jetpacks

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is taking another crack at personal flying devices, inviting companies to send their proposals for developing and demonstrating "novel or unique approaches to personal battlefield mobility."

March 21, 2021
In this Oct. 1, 2019, file photo, spectators wave Chinese flags as military vehicles carrying DF-41 ballistic missiles roll during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) ** FILE **

New Pentagon No. 2 warns of China threat

A day after Chinese diplomats traded angry barbs with their U.S. counterparts in face-to-face meetings in Alaska, new Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks on Friday lashed out at Beijing during a virtual speech at the National War College in Washington, D.C.

March 20, 2021
In this file photo, members of Western Michigan University's ROTC Army and Air Force stand as the American flag is flown at half-staff during a remembrance ceremony honoring the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014, in Kalamazoo, Mich. (AP Photo/Kalamazoo Gazette-MLive Media Group, Mark Bugnaski)

Air Force cuts back on tours at ROTC detachments

The Air Force is cutting back on the number of years an enlisted service member can be assigned to a college ROTC detachment in order to return them to their original career.

March 19, 2021